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 smooth stone from the brook. Or, an humble attempt to prevent backsliding from the principles of the covenanted Church of Scotland, in some letters to the Rev. George Lawson, by the Reverend William Willis, Minister Of The Gospel, Greenock.
Willis, William, approximately 1748-1827.Date: 1799- Books
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Of conscience.
Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660Date: 1644 [i.e. 1645]- Books
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Animadversions on the elements of Christian theology by the Reverend George Pretyman, D.D.F.R.S. Lord Bishop of Lincoln; in a series of letters addressed to His Lordship by William Frend.
Frend, William, 1757-1841.Date: 1800- Books
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Astrologie theologized : wherein is set forth, vvhat astrologie, and the light of nature is. What influence the starres naturally have on man, and how the same may be diverted and avoided. As also, that the outward man, how eminent soever in all naturall and politicall sciences, is to bee denied, and die in us. And, that the inward man by the light of grace, through profession and practice of a holy life, is to be acknowledged and live in us: which is the onely means to keep the true Sabbath in inward holinesse, and free from outward pollution. / By Valentine Weigelius.
Weigel, Valentin, 1533-1588Date: 1649- Books
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Dr. Cotton Mather's famous Latin preface to his Manuductio ad ministerium, reduced into ordo verborum: With a literal translation in the opposite page. By Mr. Hugh Walford, tutor at Mr. Ryland's Boarding School, Northampton.
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1800?]