Stories
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Inside the Cold War mind
Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.
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Permission to recover
When it comes to illness, sometimes the end is just the beginning. Gavin Francis argues why being given permission to recover is so important.
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The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
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The life and death of Tamagotchi and the virtual pet
Discover how the 1990s craze for Tamagotchis became a flood of robotic and virtual pets, sending their owners on an emotional rollercoaster ride.
Catalogue
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Science and public policy : the virtuous corruption of virtual environmental science / Aynsley Kellow.
Kellow, Aynsley J. (Aynsley John), 1951-Date: [2007], ©2007- Books
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Second political dialogues between the celebrated statues of Pasquin and Marforio at Rome. Translated from the original Italian, published the Twenty-Fifth Day of last March. Dedicated to the Right Hon. the Lord Corruption.
Date: [1737]
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Corruption in the British government under Walpole, and its opponents represented by Caleb D'Anvers: seven scenes. Engraving, 1731.
D'Anvers, Caleb.Date: 1731Reference: 576585i- Books
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On Wednesday, November 25, will be published, in Quarto, (price Two Shillings) By John Williams, No. 38, in Fleet-Street, Patriotism, a political satire. (with a Preface, respecting the English Constitution, so far as it may be affected by Parties or by Corruption, intended as introductory to the Poem) By Cato Redivivus.
Williams, John, active 1767-1772.Date: 1767]- Pictures
A dealer in inflated share-values in the Dutch share boom of 1720 is surrounded by symbols of inflation and corruption. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 2500241iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.