Stories
- Article
Yoga adapts to time and place
A yoga teacher in 1930s India inspired today’s transnational practice with his spectacular fusion of tradition and innovation.
- Article
Remote diagnosis from wee to the Web
Medical practice might have moved on from when patients posted flasks of their urine for doctors to taste, but telehealth today keeps up the tradition of remote diagnosis – to our possible detriment.
- Article
How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
- 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
Selections from the most celebrated foreign literary journals and other periodical publications. ...
Date: 1798- Books
- Online
The manchester and Liverpool museum: or, the beauties of all magazines selected. Contents. I. An Account of the Wardens and Foundation of the Collegiate Church, in Manchester. II. The Reader, No. I. III. On Raillery and its Consequences. IV. View of the Vegetable Creation. V. Moral Considerations. VI. The Theatre, No. I. Vii. Variety of Articles selected from other Publications. Viii. Poetry. IX. Monthly Chronicle, for Manchester and Liverpool. X. Ship News, &c. &c. Volume I.
Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
- Online
The English lyceum, or, Choice of pieces in prose and verse, selected from the best periodical papers, magazines, pamphlets and other British publications, published by J.W. v. Archenholtz.
Date: [1787-1788]- Books
- Online
Papers selected from the Censor. Written by - H. Of which two were condemned to be burned by the common hangman.
H, -.Date: 1750- Books
- Online
The antigallican songster; being a selection of politically curious songs.
Date: 1793