Stories
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Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
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The white tears of Taranaki
Taranaki in Aotearoa, New Zealand, is home to the world’s largest dairy factory. Sarah Hopkinson questions the price paid by an area dominated by monoculture.
Catalogue
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Direction to pay South Sea Company dividends
Date: 1724Reference: MS.7633/6Part of: Sloane, Sir Hans M.D., P.R.C.P., F.R.S., (1660-1753), physician, assembler of the collection that formed the nucleus of the British Museum- E-books
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An account of the subscriptions of the South-Sea Company
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Advantages which have accrued to the publick, and to the South-Sea Company, by the execution of the South-Sea scheme
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Advantages which have accrued to the publick, and to the South-Sea Company, by the execution of the South-Sea scheme
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The South Sea Scheme: speculators ruined by the collapse of the South Sea Company. Engraving by W. Hogarth after himself, 1721.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 1721Reference: 579424i