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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
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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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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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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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Occasional sermons upon the following subjects: the office and duty of bishops. Error and ignorance dispelled by the appearance of the Messiah. The incarnation of Christ matter of the highest joy. The Inefficacy of external Professions. On the same. Inequality of Condition advantageous to Society. Death entailed on Mankind by the Fall of Adam. The evil Tendency of false Shame. Advantages of Contentment. Benefits of an early virtuous Education. The Doctrine of the Trinity considered. The Blessing of implicit Faith in the Gospel. Religion the most perfect System of Morality. Universal Obligation to Works of Benevolence. Public Thanksgiving to God, its great Excellency and Importance. Providence of God the sole Guide of human Affairs. Pernicious Effects of evil Company. Care of the Poor recommended, especially of Lying-in Women. A religious Life the Source of true Pleasure. Charity illustrated and recommended, from the Life of Moses. Also: Oratio in Funere, &c. Written by a late eminent divine of the Church of England.
Lawson, John, 1712-1759.Date: M.DCC.LXIV. [1764]- Books
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Sir, I take the liberty to inform you, that the election of a physician and man-midwife to the Lying-in Charity, in place of Dr. A. Douglas will be on Thursday next. ...
Lying-In Charity (London, England)Date: 1791]
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An account of the Lying-in Charity for delivering poor married women at their own habitations : instituted 1757.
Lying-in Charity (London, England)Date: Printed in the year 1780- Books
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An account of the Lying-In Charity for delivering poor married women at their own habitations. Instituted 1757.
Lying-In Charity (London, England)Date: Printed In The Year MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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An account of the Lying-In Charity for delivering poor married women at their own habitations. Instituted 1757.
Lying-In Charity (London, England)Date: Printed In The Year MDCCLXIX. [1769]