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]- Pictures
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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]- Books
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[Euphrasy. Or political eyebright written in the year 1768, in consequence of a contested election for members to serve in Parliament for the borough of Ipswich in the county of Suffolk. When the laudable and truly patriotic principles of true blue were forced to give wa to bribery and corruption, ministerial influence, and Presbyterian faction, with every other undue and unconstitutional measure. Candidates. Blues. Hon. Wilbraham. Tollemache. Edwd. Holden Cruttenden Esqr: Yellows. Thomas Staunton. William Wollaston. Esqrs:]
Date: 1768]