Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
- Article
Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
- Article
How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
Catalogue
- Books
- Online
Calumny detected, or, an answer to an anonymous appendix, lately published, to the Short state of the case of Mr. Cumming, late Collector of Excise in Aberdeen.
Cumming, John, collector of excise in Aberdeen.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- Books
- Online
Letters addressed to Mrs. Peter la Touche, by Melantius. Containing a state of the orphan-houses of England, Ireland, Zeland and Holland.
Tighe, Edward, -1798?.Date: M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]- Books
- Online
An account of the institution, and proceedings of the guardians, of the asylum or house of refuge, situated on the Surry side of Westminster Bridge, for the reception of orphan girls residing within the bills of mortality, whose settlements cannot be found.
Asylum for Orphan Girls (London, England)Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- Books
- Online
An account of the institution and proceedings of the Guardians of the Asylum, or, house of refuge, situate in the parish of Lambeth, in the County of Surry, for the reception of orphan girls, ...
Asylum for Orphan Girls (London, England)Date: 1789- Books
- Online
A seasonable check to the fury of an unfledg'd minister of the Gospel. In a letter to the Reverend Mr. T- - - - - - - A very young Glóstershire Clergyman. Written by Mr. J- - - - - - - - A very young Wiltshire Layman. Occasion'd by the former's falsly charging the latter with Atheism. In which are interspers'd some Observations on Atheism and Superstition, together with a Hint or two to the Professors of Christianity in general.
J- - - - - - - -, Mr.Date: MDCCXLVIII. [1748]