Stories
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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Acid and the sexual psychonauts
How LSD fuelled one woman’s journey of sexual self-discovery in the late 1950s.
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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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Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
Catalogue
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Publishers' Advertisements
Date: 1992Reference: JDW/2/3/11/9Part of: James D. Watson Collection- Archives and manuscripts
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Publisher's Advertisements
Date: c.1983Reference: JDW/2/3/8/41Part of: James D. Watson Collection- Books
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The cholera, its causes, prevention, and cure : showing the inefficacy of drug-treatment, and the superiority of the water-cure, in this disease / by Joel Shew.
Shew, Joel, 1816-1855.Date: 1855- Books
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An appeal to the people for the suppression of the liquor traffic : a prize essay / by Rev. H.D. Kitchel.
Kitchel, Henry Denison, 1812-1895.Date: 1848- Books
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Phrenology, or The doctrine of mental phenomena / By J.G. Spurzheim, M.D.
Spurzheim, J. G. (Johann Gaspar), 1776-1832.Date: 1846