Stories
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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
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Navigating in a connected world
Alex Lee ponders the promising ideas, stalled projects and pricey gadgets that aim to help visually impaired people get out and about. But it seems that an actual human could be the essential ingredient.
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Charged bodies
Electrified humans brought education and performance together with a spark in the 18th century.
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The big freeze
In recent years we’ve come to realise that global heating is our biggest threat. But it’s hard to shake off the fear of a return to ice-age conditions, the predominant narrative since the late 17th century.
Catalogue
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Saved from a watery grave : the story of the Royal Humane Society's Receiving House in Hyde Park / by Diana Coke.
Coke, Diana.Date: 2000- Books
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Annual report for 1885 / Royal Humane Society.
Royal Humane Society (London, England)Date: 1886- Books
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Royal Humane Society, instituted 1774.
Royal Humane Society (London, England).Date: 1790?]- Books
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An experimental inquiry into the pathology and treatment of asphyxia ... To which the Royal Humane Society awarded the Fothergillian Gold Medal / [John Eric Erichsen].
Erichsen, John Eric, 1818-1896.Date: 1845- Books
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The fifty fourth annual report of the Royal Humane Society ... 1828.
Royal Humane Society (London, England)Date: [1828]