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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The big freeze
In recent years we’ve come to realise that global heating is our biggest threat. But it’s hard to shake off the fear of a return to ice-age conditions, the predominant narrative since the late 17th century.
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Philaletha, Eirenaeus
Philaletha, EirenaeusDate: Late 17th centuryReference: MS.3877- Books
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A true and impartial narrative of the eminent hand of God that befell a Quaker and his family, at the town of Panton in Lincolnshire : who affirmed he was commanded of God to pronounce Ralph James preacher of the Gospel a leper from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot: the same judgment of leprosie shortly after falling upon one of his children; himself, wife, and the rest of his children, being also afflicted with a painful distemper. Attested under the hands of several credible persons, eye and ear witnesses. As by the narrative will more at large appear.
Date: 1672- Books
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A character of coffee and coffee-houses / by M.P.
M. P., active 17th century.Date: 1661- Books
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Murrels two bookes of cookerie and carving.
Murrell, John, active 17th centuryDate: 1650- Books
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A relation of the coasts of Africk called Guinee; with a description of the countreys, manners and customs of the inhabitants; of the productions of the earth, and the merchandise and commodities it affords; with some historical observations upon the coasts. Being collected in a voyage made by the Sieur Villault, escuyer, sieur de Bellefond, in the years 1666, and 1667 / Written in French, and faithfully Englished.
Villault, Nicolas, sieur de Bellefond, active 17th century.Date: 1670