Stories
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Robinson Crusoe and the morality of solitude
Robinson Crusoe, fiction’s most famous castaway, was certainly isolated, but did he suffer the intrinsically modern affliction of loneliness?
- Long read
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.
- Book extract
The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
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The work of wet-nursing
Many of us know that in the past, babies were sometimes nourished by wet-nurses. But, perhaps surprisingly, the practice continues today – and the milk recipients are not only babies.
Catalogue
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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, September 3d, MDCCXCII, to the Society for the Reformation of Morals, in Franklin. Published at their request. By Nathanael Emmons, A.M. Pastor of the church in Franklin.
Emmons, Nathanael, 1745-1840.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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A discourse, delivered, September 2d, MDCCXCIII, to the Society for the Reformation of Morals, in Franklin. Published at their request. By Nathanael Emmons, A.M. Pastor of the church in Franklin.
Emmons, Nathanael, 1745-1840.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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A sermon preached before the Society for the Reformation of Manners. At Salters-Hall, August 3, 1763. By John Conder, D. D. Published at the Request of the Society.
Conder, John, 1714-1781.Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Books
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A sermon preached before the Society for the Reformation of Manners. at Salters-Hall, August 3, 1763. By John Conder, D.D. Published at the Request of the Society.
Conder, John, 1714-1781.Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]