Stories
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Drops of water
In the compulsory isolation of lockdown, Daisy Lafarge’s repeated visits – via a new microscope – to the miniature worlds contained by drops of pond water provided her with the company and escapism she craved.
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Born in the NHS
Despite underfunding, strikes and scandals, the first two decades of the 2000s has seen the British people’s love of and loyalty to the NHS soar.
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Finding my body through the wilderness
Writer Jennifer Neal used vigorous exercise classes to try and heal herself in the years following an assault. But it was only while hiking outdoors that she found true strength.
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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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
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Genetic and Physical Determination of Segments in Escherichia coli - Jacob and Wollman
Date: 1957Reference: SB/2/3/90Part of: Sydney Brenner Collection- Books
Die 'Würzburger Wundarznei' : ein chirurgisches Arzneimittel-Handbuch des Spätmittelalters : Textausgabe, Teil I : Edition des ersten Segments (Pflasterverbände)... / vorgelegt von Heinrich Kaipert.
Kaipert, Heinrich, 1943.Date: 1998- Archives and manuscripts
Ig D segments
Date: 1990sReference: PP/SUL/B/1/4/10Part of: John Sulston: archives- Videos
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Bronchopulmonary segments. Part 1, Anatomy and bronchoscopy.
Date: 1955- Books
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The theory and practice of gauging, demonstrated in a short and easy method. Containing, among other Particulars, The Method of Computing Decimally; extracting the Square Root, with the Construction and Use of the Sliding-Rule explain'd at large. The Elementary Properties of the Conic Sections, and the Manner of describing them in Plano. General Principles of Mensuration, with Theorems for Measuring all right-lin'd Planes, Parallelopipedons, Prismatic Solids, the Conic Sections, Conoids, Spindles, their Segments, and Frustums, &c. A General Proposition for measuring the Hoofs or Ungula's of any Cone or Pyramid; and a new Method for Measuring by Approximation. With the Application of the preceeding Principles to Practice; and illustrated throughout by particular Examples. Published with the particular Approbation of the Honourable Commissioners of Excise. Design'd for the Use of the Officers of that Revenue. By Robert Shirtcliffe.
Shirtcliffe, Robert.Date: MDCCXL. [1740]