Stories
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Dirt, disease and the Inspector of Nuisances
In the days when ‘bad air’ was thought to spread disease, dozens of Inspectors of Nuisances ceaselessly struggled against the perils of dirt – both visible and invisible.
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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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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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Sir, I am directed by the Honorable Commissioners of His Majesty's Stamp Duties to acquaint you of the repeal of the duties payable on the entries of christenings, marriages, and burials, after the 1st day of October next, and to request you will immediately after that period make out an account, of all arrears then due, and pay the same at my office, in Rochester or to any subdistributor of stamps, in West Kent, nearest you place of residence, for which purpose I inclose you a form to be filled up as usual. ...
Great Britain. Stamp Office.Date: 1794]- Books
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A compleat alphabetical abridgment of the statutes now in force relating to the stamp duties: whereby at one view may be seen what stamps are required on all sorts of Deeds, Writings and agreements, &c. of what nature or kind soever: And also of those which are Exempt from the Stamp Duties. Together with the several penalties or Forfeitures. And likewise refers to the Statutes.
Great Britain.Date: MDCCXLIX. [1749]- Books
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A compleat alphabetical abridgment of the statutes now in force relating to the stamp duties: Whereby at one view may be seen what stamps are required on all sorts of deeds, writings and agreements, &c. of what nature or kind soever: and also of those which are exempt from the stamp duties. Together with the several penalties or forfeitures. And likewise refers to the statutes.
Great Britain.Date: 1727- Books
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Observations on the statutes relating to the stamp duties particularly upon professional and mercantile proceedings; From their Commencement, to the last Sessions of Parliament, both inclusive: To which is prefixed a prefatory discourse addressed to the practisers. with proper repertories. By John Rayner, of the Inner Temple, Compiler of Green's Spirit of the Bankrupt Laws, and of Cases at large, concerning Tithes, &c.
Rayner, John, of the Inner Temple.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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The stamp duties, compiled from the statutes: with explanatory extracts and useful appendix. Dedicated (by Permission) to the Right Honorable Lord Kenyon. By the compiler of the inventory used at the Stamp Office. Entered at Stationers Hall.
Date: [1790?]