Stories
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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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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 poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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The 200-year search for normal people
Sarah Chaney poses the question we’ve likely all asked at some point in our lives: 'Am I normal?’, and explores whether normality even exists.
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Early music history
Date: 1981-- Pictures
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Pierre Dionis lecturing on surgery at the Saint-Côme lecture theatre in Paris. Engraving by Jean-Baptiste Scotin the younger, 1707.
Date: 1707Reference: 25337i- Pictures
Pierre Dionis lecturing on surgery at the Saint-Côme lecture theatre in Paris. Engraving by Jean-Baptiste Scotin the younger, 1707.
Date: 1707Reference: 25289i- Pictures
Pierre Dionis lecturing on surgery at the Saint-Côme lecture theatre in Paris. Engraving after an original engraving by Jean-Baptiste Scotin the younger, 1707.
Date: 1707Reference: 25315i- Books
From provincial savant to Parisian naturalist : the recollections of Pierre-Joseph Amoreux (1741-1824) / edited and introduced by Laurence Brockliss.
Amoreux, Pierre Joseph, 1741-1824Date: [2017]