Stories
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Renaissance women and their killer cosmetics
In this extract from ‘How to be a Renaissance Woman’, Jill Burke delves into a complex world of beauty products, poison and patriarchy – and reveals the impossible contradictions of femininity faced by 16th-century women.
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Hamlet, the melancholic Prince of Denmark
Hamlet clearly demonstrates an excess of black bile and is arguably the most famous literary melancholic.
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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK
Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.
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Sharing breastmilk with parents
Alev Scott donated her frozen breastmilk to a hospital milk bank, but she was curious about other routes. Here she explores commercial operations and informal private arrangements.
Catalogue
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Restricted medicines and poisons : an annotated list of medicines and poisons the supply of which is restricted by law / compiled by Alan W. Hunter ... [for] the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.Date: [1974]- Books
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On the action of water upon lead pipes / being a translation from the French of M. Belgrand ; with introductory remarks by W. Sedgwick Saunders.
Belgrand, E. (Eugène), 1810-1878.Date: 1881- Books
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Dr Frank Seymour's report to the Local Government Board on the occurrence of lead poisoning in the Urban District of Guisborough, and its relation to the public water supply.
Seymour, Frank.Date: 1913- Books
Thirtieth annual report of the Local Government Board, 1900-01. Supplement in continuation of the Report of the Medical Officer for 1900-1901 : on lead-poisoning and water supplies.
Date: 1903- Books
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Three reports relating to the Hastings water : with an appendix of letters, &c. / Ordered to be printed by the Hastings Local Board of Health.
Taylor, Alfred Swaine, 1806-1880.Date: 1859