Stories
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Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies
Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.
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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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Queen Victoria with the infant Princess Victoria on her lap. Mezzotint by G.H. Phillips after E. Cole, 1841.
Cole, Ellen, active 1841-1849.Date: March 21 1841Reference: 570716i- Pictures
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The Apocalypse: the opening of the sixth seal. Mezzotint by G.H. Phillips, 1844, after F. Danby.
Danby, Francis, 1793-1861.Date: January 1844Reference: 34631i- Pictures
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Thomas Emerson Headlam. Mezzotint by G. H. Phillips after T. Carrick.
Carrick, Thomas Heathfield, 1802-1875.Reference: 4079i- Books
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Instructions for young mariners, respecting the management of ships at single anchor. By Henry Taylor, of North Shields.
Taylor, Henry, 1737-Date: 1793- Books
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A narrative of the circumstances, which led to fixing the lights in Hasbro' Gatt, the light at the Goodwin, and the proposition for a light near the Sunk Sand; with occasional observations.
Taylor, Henry, 1737-Date: 1796