Stories
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Political brilliance and the power of self-promotion
How do you convince people you’re exceptional? Meet the ultimate self-styled genius.
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Bubbles of history
Since the 1960s, scientists have been able to study the air from past centuries by analysing particles in Arctic ice samples. But as the polar ice melts, the future of this research is changing.
- Book extract
The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
- Book extract
A history of sex for sale
Kate Lister’s cultural history of the sex trade puts sex workers centre stage. In this extract, she argues why the way we write, think and talk about sex work matters.
Catalogue
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Museums and migration : history, memory and politics / edited by Laurence Gourievidis.
Date: 2014- Books
The politics of vaccination : a global history / edited by Christine Holmberg, Stuart Blume and Paul Greenough.
Date: 2017- Books
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The new annual register, or general repository of history, politics, and literature, for the year 1799. To which is prefixed, the history of knowledge, learning, and taste, in Great Britain, during the reign of King Charles II. - Part III.
Date: MDCCC. [1800]- Books
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The new annual register, or general repository of history, politics, and literature, for the year 1797. To which is prefixed, the history of knowledge, learning, and taste, in Great Britain; during the reign of King Charles II. - Part I.
Date: MDCCXCVIII. [1798]- Books
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The new annual register, or general repository of history, politics, and literature, for the year 1798. To which is prefixed, the history of knowledge, learning, and taste, in Great Britain, during the reign of King Charles II. - Part II.
Date: MDCCXCIX. [1799]