Stories
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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean
Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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A view of society and manners in high and low life; being the adventures in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France, &c. of Mr. G. Parker. In which is comprised a history of the stage itinerant. In two volumes. ...
Parker, George, 1732-1800.Date: M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]- Books
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The universe displayed; or, a survey of the wonderful works of creation, and of the various customs and inventions of men. In which whatever is most remarkable throughout the world, both with Respect to the Works of Nature in Plants, Insects, Serpents, Beasts, Birds, Fishes, &c. and to The different Customs, Habits, Inventions, and Works of Men. will not only be given an account of, but the most curious of them also finely represented by beautiful copper-plate cuts.
Goadby, Robert, 1721-1778.Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Books
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General customs and ceremonies of the University, throughout the year.
Date: 1790?]- Books
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Humorous sketches; satyrical strokes, and Attic observations. By George Parker, Author of the View of Society and Manners.
Parker, George, 1732-1800.Date: [1782?]- Books
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The Trifler. No. I. A new periodical miscellany. By Timothy Touchstone, of Saint Peter's College, Westminster.
Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]