Stories
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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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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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Inside the Cold War mind
Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.
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Yoga gets physical
Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.
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An address delivered before the Society for the Reformation of Morals : in Weymouth and Braintree, at their annual meeting, April 13, 1818 / by Noah Fifield.
Fifield, Noah, 1783-1867.Date: 1818- Books
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A discourse, delivered November 3, 1790, at the particular request of a number of respectable men in Franklin, who were forming a society, for the reformation of morals. And now published at the desire of the hearers. By Nathanael Emmons, A.M. Pastor of the church in Franklin.
Emmons, Nathanael, 1745-1840.Date: [1790]- Books
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The narrative and resolution, with the rules of the Society for Reformation of Manners, met at Edinburgh, the 13th day of December 1742. Containing an account of such like societies through Britain and Ireland, preceeding the year 1700.
Society for Reformation of Manners (Edinburgh, Scotland)Date: M.DCC.XLII. [1742]- Books
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A sermon preached to the Societies for reformation of manners, at St. Mary-le-Bow, on Monday, December the 31st, MDCCXVI. By the Right Reverend Father in god, St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher in Ireland. Published at their Request.
Ashe, George, 1658?-1718.Date: 1717- Books
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The moral nature and fitness of things considered. Occasioned by some passages in the Reverend Mr. Samuel Chandler's sermon, lately preached to the Societies for the Reformation of Manners. By John Gill.
Gill, John, 1697-1771.Date: [1738]