Stories
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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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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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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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A general registry of births, kept at the Heralds Office on St. Bennet's Hill near St. Paul's, London.
College of Arms (Great Britain)Date: 1747?]- Books
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Reverend Sir, having found, from many instances, the difficulties and expence of coming at the certain knowledge of the places, where people have been born or register'd, whether in the parish registers, or the private ones of Dissenting congregations, it has been thought of important service to have such a general authentick register, as in the plan here inclosed from the Heralds Office; ...
College of Arms (Great Britain)Date: 1747?]- Books
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Proposals by the United Company of Insurers on Marriages, Births and Servitude, at their office at the Green Lamp in Downing-Street, Westminster.
United Company of Insurers on Marriages, Births and Servitude.Date: 1710?]- Books
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Proposals for two societies, for insurance on the births of children, by a weekly dividend. By the Secure Society.
Secure Society (Hand and Glove, Great Russel-Street, London, England)Date: 1710?]- Books
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A register for births, christenings, and burials, agreeable to an Act of Parliament of the twenty-third year of King George III. ... printed ... by W. Chase and Co. Norwich. Entered at Stationers Hall.
Date: 1783]