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Political brilliance and the power of self-promotion
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Parks and politics in Brixton’s past and present
Gentrification is creeping along Railton Road, but racial inequality still lingers in memories of the 1980s, and in the continuing lack of green-space access.
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Medics and the bomb
Would a nuclear attack on the UK overwhelm the NHS? At the height of the Cold War, despite government optimism, medics predicted doom.
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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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Enumeration of the inhabitants of Scotland, taken from the government abstracts of 1801, 1811, 1821 ; containing a particular account of every parish in Scotland, and many useful details respecting England, Wales and Ireland / [James Cleland].
Cleland, James, 1770-1840.Date: 1823- Books
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Ophthalmic conditions in the government schools in Egypt and their amelioration / [by A.F. MacCallan].
MacCallan, A. F. (Arthur Ferguson)Date: 1908- Books
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On small pox and its prevention, including experiments upon the lower animals : and on the establishment of government hospitals for this and some other contagious diseases in the suburbs of London / by Edwards Crisp.
Crisp, Edwards, 1806-1882.Date: 1871- Books
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The divine right of church-government by bishops, its universal reception, even in the first ages of the church, asserted and proved. D. Blondel's and others arguments against it considered. The challenge renewed, To shew any Church, till lately, that hath not been Governed by Episcopal Government. And a Perswasive to Dissenters to return to the Communion of the Church of England. Being a Preliminary Discourse to an History of the Government of the Church, for the Three First Centuries and the beginning of the Fourth. By Francis Brokesby, B. D. sometime Fellow of Trinity-College in Cambridge.
Brokesby, Francis, 1637-1714.Date: MDCCXIV. [1714]- Books
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An historical essay upon the government of the Church of England, from the earliest to the present times. Exhibiting the true causes of the separation from Rome, in the Reign of Henry Viii. And the Review - intended at the Revolution. With a vindication of the measures of Henry Viii. Edward VI. and Queen Elizabeth, from the calumnies of a popish writer, published in the First and Second Volumes of an History, entitled, The Church History of England, from the Year 1500, to the Year 1688, chiefly with Regard to Catholicks. Being A Compleat Account of the Divorce, Supremacy, Dissolution of Monasteries, and first Attempts for a Reformation under King Henry Viii. the unsettled State of the Resormation under Edward VI. the Interruption it met with from Queen Mary, with the last Hand put to it by Queen Elizabeth. And a preface, Containing a Summary of the false Facts and Principles advanced by the Catholic-Historian. By George Reynolds, L. L. D. Archdeacon of Lincoln.
Reynolds, George, 1699 or 1700-1769.Date: MDCCXLIII. [1743]