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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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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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
Catalogue
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An attempt to promote the commercial interests of Great-Britain. By William Langworthy, of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. Tract I.
Langworthy, William.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Archives and manuscripts
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Pamphlet: An Address to the Inhabitants of Europe on the Iniquity of the Slave Trade, issued by the Religious Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers, in Great Britain and Ireland (1822)
Date: 1822Reference: RET/8/9/3Part of: The Retreat Archive- Books
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Two sermons, preached in London, by the Rev. William Nicol, and the Rev. George Campbell Brodbelt, before the Protestant union; A Society, instituted for the relief and support of the Widows and Orphans of Protestant Ministers in Great Britain, of every denomination. To which is added, a list of the donations and subscriptions of its Benefactors and Members, From its Commencement.
Nicol, William, D.D.Date: 1800- Pictures
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Hippopotamuses with elephants in African jungle, representing the Behemoth of the Old Testament. Colour wood engraving attributed to Edmund Evans, 1867.
Date: 1 June 1867Reference: 577886i- Books
Medieval libraries of Great Britain : a list of surviving books / edited by N.R. Ker.
Date: 1941