Stories
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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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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 child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 6
Date: Aug 1901 - Jul 1903Reference: WF/E/01/01/06Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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The state of the charity for the relief of poor clergymen, and their widows and children, in Essex, and that part of Hertfordshire which is within the diocese of London: as it stood at the court of audit, holden at Chelmsford, on Tuesday, the 19th day of August, 1794. Contributions: The Right Rev. Lord Bishop of London, President, - - - - - - - - -. s. d. 10 10 0 Sir William Scott, Knt. Chancellor of the Diocese of London, - - - - - - - 2 2 0 The Worshipful Dr. Harris, Commissary, - - - 1 1 0 -. 13 13 0 - Subscriptions and Donations to this Charity are received by Messrs. Gosling's, Bankers, Fleet-Street, London; or R. C. Stanes, Book-Seller, Chelmsford, Secretary to the Corporation.
Charity for the relief of poor clergymen, and their widows and children, in Essex.Date: MDCCXCV. [1795]- Books
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The state of the charity for the relief of poor clergymen, and their widows and children, in Essex, and that part of Hertfordshire which is within the diocese of London: as it stood at the court of audit, holden at Chelmsford, on Tuesday, the 9th day of August, 1796. Contributions. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of London, President. - - - - - - - - -. s. d. 10 10 0 Sir William Scott, Knt. Chancellor of the Diocese of London, - - - - - - - 2 2 0 The Worshipful Dr. Swabey, Commissary, - - - 1 1 0 -. 13 13 0 - Subscriptions and Donations to this Charity are received by Messrs. Gosling's, Bankers, Fleet-Street, London; or R. C. Stanes, Bookseller, Chelmsford, Secretary to the Corporation.
Charity for the relief of poor clergymen, and their widows and children, in Essex.Date: MDCCXCVII. [1797]- Books
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The state of the charity for the relief of poor clergymen, and their widows and children, in Essex, and that part of Hertfordshire which is within the diocese of London: as it stood at the court of audit, holden at Chelmsford, on Tuesday, the 11th day of August, 1795. Contributions: The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of London, President, - - - - - - - - -. s. d. 10 10 0 Sir William Scott, Knt. Chancellor of the Diocese of London, - - - - - - - 2 2 0 The Worshipful Dr. Harris, Commissary, - - - 1 1 0 -. 13 13 0 - Subscriptions and Donations to this Charity are received by Messrs. Gosling's, Bankers, Fleet-Street, London; or R. C. Stanes, Bookseller, Chelmsford, Secretary to the Corporation.
Charity for the relief of poor clergymen, and their widows and children, in Essex.Date: MDCCXCVI. [1796]- Books
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Hints and cautions, for the information of the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor Of the Parishes of St. Giles in the Fields and St. George, Bloomsbury, In the County of Middlesex: and, Rules, Orders, and Regulations for Maintaining, Governing, Employing, and Regulating the said Poor; Made by the Vestry of the said Parishes, By virtue and in pursuance of the Statute 14 Geo. 3. c. 62.
St. Giles in the Fields (London, England)Date: [1797]