Stories
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Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
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Printing the body
The 18th century saw multiple technical developments in both printing and medicine. Colourful collaborations ensued – to the benefit of growing ranks of medical students.
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The girl with no name
When a now anonymous teenager sold her tooth for transplant, she couldn’t have predicted that she’d end up at the heart of a troubling story about 18th-century beauty ideals.
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Rose Mackenberg’s deceptive activism
Discover how a New York private investigator became part of Houdini’s mission to expose the fraudulent mediums making money from their vulnerable, grieving clients.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Autograph report by Silvestre on an invention by a Mr. Warker of New York
Date: 18th century - 19th centuryReference: MS.7637/32Part of: Silvestre, Augustin François, baron de (1762-1851), naturalist and agriculturalist- Journals
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Current history & forum
Date: 1940-1941- Journals
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British journal of psychology
Date: [1953]-- Books
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The dramatic pieces, and poetry, of William Nation, Jun. Including, The school for diffidence, miscellanies, a Collection of songs, &c. &c.
Nation, William, active 1789.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
The second printed draft of the Constitution of the United States of America, September 12, 1787 : each page annotated during the proceedings of the federal convention by Pierce Butler, delegate from South Carolina.
Parke-Bernet Galleries.Date: 1970