Stories
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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
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Building a dream in the garden suburbs
In the late 19th century a ‘garden suburb’ promised a retreat from London’s dirt and crowds. See how this new concept was developed to appeal to the health concerns of the literary classes.
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Pepys and the plague
Through its long history, London has survived some enormous epidemics. During the 1665 Great Plague of London, the city burned, shops closed, the streets emptied and bodies piled up. Read Samuel Pepys’s account of how the city pulled through.
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Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
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The appeal of reason to the people of England, on the present state of parties in the nation.
Dalrymple, John, Sir, 1726-1810.Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Books
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The life of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England. By Mr. Mallet.
Mallet, David, 1705?-1765.Date: M.DCC.XL. [1740]- Books
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The bench. An eclogue. Occasioned by the war between England and Spain.
King, William, 1685-1763.Date: MDCCXLI. [1741]- Books
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The reprisal: or, The tars of Old England. A comedy, in two acts. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane.
Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771.Date: M.DCC.LVII. [1757]- Books
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The history of England, from the invasion of Julius Cæsar to the revolution in 1688. In eight volumes. By David Hume, Esq; ...
Hume, David, 1711-1776.Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]