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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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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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.
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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.
Catalogue
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Cardiovascular physiology in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / [Jerome Joseph Bylebyl].
Bylebyl, Jerome J. (Jerome Joseph), 1943-Date: [1976]- Books
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To the Right Honourable, the Knights, citizens and burgesses in Parliament assembled : The petition of Martha Bayley relating to the several grand abuses in Her Majesty's Royal Hospital near Chelsea.
Bayley, MarthaDate: [between 1702 and 1714]- Books
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The women's petition against coffee : representing to publick consideration the grand inconveniencies accruing to their sex from the excessive use of that drying, enfeebling liquor : presented to the right honorable the keepers of the liberty of Venus / by a well-willer.
Well-willerDate: 1674- Books
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[Retsah] a cry against a crying sinne: or, A just complaint to the magistrates, against them who have broken the statute laws of God, by killing of men meerly for theft : Manifested in a petition long since presented to the Common Councel of the City of London, on the behalfe of transgressours. Together with certaine proposals, presented by Col. Pride to the Right Honourable the generall Counsell for the Army, and the Committee appointed by the Parliament of England, to consider of the inconveniences, mischiefes, chargeablenesse, and irregularities in their law.
Chidley, SamuelDate: 1652- Books
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Unto His Majesties High Commissioner, and the Right Honourable Estates of Parliament : the petition of James Bayne His Majesties late Mr. Wright.
Bayne, James, master-wrightDate: [1695]