Stories
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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history
Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.
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Navigating in a connected world
Alex Lee ponders the promising ideas, stalled projects and pricey gadgets that aim to help visually impaired people get out and about. But it seems that an actual human could be the essential ingredient.
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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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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.
Catalogue
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Vertical transportation in Old Back Bay, a museum case study : the acquisition of a small residential hydraulic elevator / Robert M. Vogel.
Vogel, Robert M.Date: 1988- Books
The fatal shore : a history of the transportation of convicts to Australia, 1787-1868 / Robert Hughes.
Hughes, Robert, 1938-2012.Date: 1987- E-journals
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The Journal of transport history
Date: [1953-- Books
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The poor unhappy transported felon's sorrowful account of his fourteen years transportation at Virginia, in America. In six parts. Being a remakable and succinct history of the life of James Revel, the unhappy sufferer. Who was put apprentice by his father to a tinman, nearl moor-ficias, where he got into bad company, and before ong ran away, and went a robbing with a gang of thieves; but his master soon got him back: yet would not he be kept from his old companions, but went a thieving with them again; for which he was transported fourteen years. With an account of the way the transports works, and the punishment they receive for committing any fault. Concluding with a word of advice to all young men.
Revel, James.Date: 1780?]- Books
An analysis of the history of fish exportation from Ireland : areas in Ireland and abroad involved, types of fish, personnel and organization, successful and unsuccessful eras and why, technical changes / by John de Courcy Ireland.
Ireland, John de Courcy.Date: 1994