Stories
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“I’ve never talked to anybody about this before”
Douglas is furious. He’s at crisis point and needs help. Read the first of his two sessions with psychoanalyst Susie Orbach.
- Article
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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Would you like to buy a unicorn?
The story behind why somebody tried to sell Henry Wellcome a unicorn head in 1928.
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. D' Eendraght, Jan Boufet, Master. John Shaw, Commander of the private Ship of War the Caesar, the pretended sole Captor, - - - - - - Appellant. Jane Dooling, Widow, the Relict and Administratrix of Laurence Dooling, deceased, late Commander of the private Ship of War the Patsey, and Joseph Fayrer, otherwise Farrer, Commander of the private Ship of War the Harlequin, joint Chacers and Captors, - - - - - - Respondents. An Appeal from the High Court of Admiralty of England. Case on Behalf of Jane Dooling, One of the Respondents.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1788?]- Books
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Edward Mac-Culloch, of Auchinguil, - - appellant. Janet Mac-Culloch, wife of the said Edward, - respondent. The respondent's case.
MacCulloch, Janet.Date: 1759]- Books
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Edward Macculloch, - - - - - - - - appellant. Janet Macculloch, - - - - - - - - - respondent. The appellant's case.
MacCulloch, Edward.Date: 1759]- Books
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Elizabeth Halpenn, commonly called Lady Lawley, wife of Mark Halpenn, - - - - - - - - appellant. And Judith Lawley, otherwise Butler, George Bateman Lawley, and Richard Allen, - - - - respondents. The respondent Richard Allen's case.
Allen, Richard, active 1737-1739.Date: 1739]- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes. De Eendraght, Jan Beaufet, Master. John Shaw, Commander of the Private Ship of War the Caesar, the pretended sole Chaser and Captor of the said Ship and Goods, - - Appellant. Against Joseph Fayrer, otherwise Farrer, Commander of the Private Ship of War the Harlequin, and Elizabeth Dooling, Widow, the Relict and Administratrix of Lawrence Dooling, late Commander of the Private Ship of War the Patsey, joint Chasers and Captors of the said Ship and Goods, - - - - - - Respondents. Case on behalf of the said Joseph Fayrer, one of the Respondents.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1788?]