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Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies
Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.
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Dirt, disease and the Inspector of Nuisances
In the days when ‘bad air’ was thought to spread disease, dozens of Inspectors of Nuisances ceaselessly struggled against the perils of dirt – both visible and invisible.
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Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
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Coasting to catastrophe
In climate change, everything – and everyone – is connected. The watery process that will gradually cut off the Isle of Thanet from the British mainland has begun, and everyone in the UK needs to pay attention.
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Henry Brougham is praised by black ex-slaves for his part in their liberation, but criticized by children factory employees, on whom he turns his back. Lithograph by H.H. (Henry Heath).
Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850.Date: Pub'd May 26th [1832?]Reference: 669498iPart of: Political sketches by H.H.- Books
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The true state of England. Containing the particular duty, business and salary of every officer, civil and military In All the Publick Offices of Great Britain. As also Complete Lists of the Lords and Gentlemen of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council: Of Their Majesties Housholds: Of the Housholds of the Prince of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family; And of the Great Officers of State, &c. Together with an Account of the Government of the Cities of London and Westminster: With the Names of the Magistrates, Principal Officers, &c. The Whole in a more Exact and Correct Manner than any Performance of this kind, for several Years past.
Date: 1729- Books
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The True state of England. Containing the particular duty, business and salary of every officer, civil and military in all the publick offices of Great Britain. As also complete lists of the lords and gentlemen of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council: of their Majesties housholds: of the housholds of the Prince of Wales, and the rest of the Royal family; and of the great officers of state, &c. as well military as civil. Together with an account of the government of the cities of London and Westminster: with the names of the magistrates, principal officers, &c. The whole in a more exact and correct manner than any performance of this kind, for several years past. With an appendix, containing the alterations, &c. made since the work was in the press.
Date: 1734- Books
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The Important crisis: Or, A seasonable address from a citizen of London to his brethren, in relation to the election of a Chamberlain for this city.
Date: 1760?]- Books
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Wakefield's merchant and tradesman's general directory for London, Westminster, Borough of Southwark, and twenty-two miles circular from St. Paul's, for the year 1790. Containing an accurate list of the names and places of abode of the merchants, manufacturers, and principle tradesmen, alphabetically arranged with the Numbers as they are affixed to their Houses, agreeable to the late Acts of Parliament. Also Distinct Lists of the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen, Commissioners of the Customs, Stamp, and Excise, with the Artists and Boarding Schools. Likewise Directors of the Bank, East India Company, and South Sea; Royal Exchange Assurance, Sun Fire. London Assurance, Westminster, Union, Hand-in-Hand and Phoenix Fire Offices. And The Committee of Merchants trading to Africa, Russia, Hudson's Bay, and Eastland. To Which IS Added A Correct List of the Bankers.
Wakefield, Roger.Date: [1789?]