Stories
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs
In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.
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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.
Catalogue
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The trial of Lady Ann Foley; wife of the Hon. Edward Foley, Esq; and daughter of William, Earl of Coventry, for adultery, with the Right Hon. Charles Henry Earl of Peterborough, in the consistorial and episcopal court at Doctor's Commons. Containing the whole of the evidence.
Foley, Edward, 1747-1803.Date: [1785?]- Books
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The trial of Lady Ann Foley. Wife of the Hon. Edward Foley, Esq; and daughter of William Earl of Coventry, for adultery with the Right Hon. Charles Henry Earl of Peterborough, in the consistorial and episcopal court at Doctors Commons. containing the whole of the evidence.
Foley, Edward, 1747-1803.Date: [1785?]- Books
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The trial of Mrs. Eliz. Leslie Christie, Daughter of the Late Sir William Baird, Bart. of Saughton Hall, and Wife of James Christie, Esquire, Capt. in the late 88th Regiment of Foot, And son of Major General Christie; for committing adultery with Joseph Baker, Esq; And Violating her Conjugal Vow.
[Christie, James, Esquire]Date: [1783?]- Books
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Trial of Cornet Sykes: for crim. con. with Mrs. Parslowe.
Sykes, Francis WilliamDate: 1790- Books
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Crim. Con. A narrative of a late trial in a cause of crim. con. Wherein the Rt. Hon. George, Earl of Westmeath was plaintiff, and the Hon. Augustus Cavendish Bradshaw, defendant. To which is subjoined: a poetical deseant on modern incontinency; or, The mysteries of coaching developed. With a word or two directing to the choice of charioteers, addressed to the higher circles. And in conclusion: a coach-scene described; or, a dissertation on strokes. After the manner of sterne.
Westmeath, George Frederick Nugent, Earl of, 1760-1814.Date: [1796]