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The problem of the punctured heart
During World War II a young American surgeon working in England perfected shrapnel-removal techniques that saved dozens of lives. Discover how one case sealed his reputation as the founder of cardiac surgery.
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Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
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The colonist who faced the blue terror
India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.
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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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Crimean War: Sisters of Charity nursing wounded soldiers from the Battle of Inkerman. Coloured lithograph by Le Par (?), 1855.
Le Par.Date: [23 June 1855]Reference: 21052i- Ephemera
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Lest we forget : buy your Xmas presents at the exhibition and sale of goods made by war disabled men at the Imperial Institute, South Kensington, London, S.W.7 November 7th to 17th, 1928 ... : in co-operation with the British Legion : admission free / Imperial Institute ; [illustrated by] E. Whatley.
Imperial Institute (Great Britain)Date: 1928- Books
My little soldiers / Glenn Barden.
Barden, GlennDate: 2014- Books
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Before the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. Appeal from the High Court of Admiralty. St. Eustatius and its dependencies, John Ingram of Billiter-Square, London, merchant, the claimant of fifty-seven hogsheads of sugar and forty-two pieces of canvas, as the property of John Campbell the elder, and Company of Glasgow, in North Britain, merchants, - - - - - - - appellant. Against the Right Honourable George Lord Rodney, and Major General John Vaughan, the commanders in chief, and the rest of the commanders, officers, mariners, marines, and soldiers, captors of the island of Saint Eustatius, and its dependencies, - - - - - - - - respondents, the appellant's case.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1786?]- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. Appeal from the High Court of Admiralty. St. Eustatius, and its dependencies. John Ingram of Billiter Square, London, merchant, the claimant of 57 hogsheads of sugar, and 42 pieces of canvas, as the property of John Campbell the elder, and Co. of Glasgow, in North-Britain, merchants, appellants. Against The Right Honourable George Brydges Lord Rodney and Major-General Vaughan, their officers, mariners, marines, and soldiers, captors of the said island of Saint Eustatius, and its dependencies, - - - respondents. Appendix to the respondents' case.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1786?]