Stories
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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.
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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 poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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“Everybody desires a degree of independence”
I’m 26, and building a network of friends and my career. Unlike most people my age, I’m entirely dependent on carers to achieve this.
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A poetical epistle, addressed to William, Earl of Mansfield. By the author of The Ciceroniad.
Author of The Ciceroniad.Date: 1778- Books
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The seasons. Considered as representing the different periods of man's life - as evidences of the power, wisdom, and goodness of God - and as Motives to incite to Piety and Devotion. By James Maxwell, Poet in Paisley.
Maxwell, James, 1720-1800.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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The tears of piety. An elegy On the much lamented Death of the Rev. John Fletcher, Late Vicar of Madely in Shropshire; Who died August 14th, 1785. By Way of Condolence to his afflicted Widow, and bereaved Flock. By Philagathos. Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit. Hor.
Philagathos, active 1751.Date: M,DCC,LXXXV. [1785]- Books
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Britain's hero: a poem on the death of his Grace John, Duke of Marlborough.
Giles, Jacob.Date: M.DCC.XXII. [1722]- Books
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The Lover and shepherdess, or, True lovers meeting.
Date: [1792 - 1839]