Stories
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Restoring disorder to ‘The Book of Disquiet’
Printer Tim Hopkins explains what making an extraordinary new edition of Fernando Pessoa’s book revealed about both the text and the mind.
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A history of sex for sale
Kate Lister’s cultural history of the sex trade puts sex workers centre stage. In this extract, she argues why the way we write, think and talk about sex work matters.
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Renaissance women and their killer cosmetics
In this extract from ‘How to be a Renaissance Woman’, Jill Burke delves into a complex world of beauty products, poison and patriarchy – and reveals the impossible contradictions of femininity faced by 16th-century women.
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The psychology of Ouija
Explore the science behind table tilting and Ouija boards, and discover how the unscrupulous still make money from exploiting the ‘ideomotor’ effect.
Catalogue
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Private Letter Book
Date: February - July 1895Reference: WF/E/11/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Private Letter Book
Date: October 1894 - February 1895Reference: WF/E/11/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Pictures
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Doctor Rock, a medicine vendor, selling his wares from a horse-drawn carriage to a crowd. Engraving.
Reference: 20635i- Books
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Manson's catalogue for 1788, of several parcels of books, lately purchased, many in elegant bindings; also a collection of prints, Architecture, Maps, &c. which are now selling for ready money, At the Prices annexed and marked on the first Leaf of each Book, by P. J. Manson, bookseller, in King - Street, near Charles-Street, Westminster. Where may be had the utmost Value for Libraries or Parcels of Books. - Books exchanged.
Manson, P. J. (Peter James).Date: 1788]- Books
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The second part of a catalogue of books, for 1798, in various languages and classes of learning, now selling cheap, for ready money only, by William Rusher, Banbury. Catalogues may be had gratis, at the Place of Sale; at Mr. Slatter's, Printer, Oxford; and at Mr. James Wallis's, Ivey Lane, Paternoster Row, London. - W. Rusher's Catalogue of Books to Let, containing many Thousand Volumes, may be had gratis; and any of the Books therein will be sold at reasonable Prices.
Rusher, William, 1759-1849.Date: 1798]