Stories
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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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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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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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A plain and faithful testimony against that abominable, but too fashionable vice of profane swearing. Being the substance of several discourses from James V. 12. which came lately in course to be expounded. By Nathaniel Appleton, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in Cambridge. Proper to be in families for the frequent serious perusal of young people. [Four lines of Scripture texts]
Appleton, Nathaniel, 1693-1784.Date: 1765- Books
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An admonition against profane and common swearing. In a letter from a minister to his parishioners. To be put privately into the hands of persons who are addicted to swearing. By the right Rev. Father in God, Edmund Gibson, D. D. Late Lord Bishop of London.
Gibson, Edmund, 1669-1748.Date: 1800- Books
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An admonition against profane and common swearing. In a letter from a minister to his parishioner. To be put privately into the Hands of Persons who are addicted to Swearing. By the Right Reverend Father in God, Edmund, Lord Bishop of London.
Gibson, Edmund, 1669-1748.Date: M.DCC.XLV. [1745]- Books
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Reflections on profane and judicial swearing. By Joseph Moser.
Moser, Joseph, 1748-1819.Date: 1795- Books
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An admonition against profane and common swearing. In a letter from a minister to his parishioner [sic]. To be put privately into the Hands Of Persons who are addicted to Swearing. By the Right Reverend Father in God, Edmund Gibson, D. D. Late Lord Bishop of London.
Gibson, Edmund, 1669-1748.Date: 1753