Stories
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Religion and mental health
At a time of extreme distress, Jamila Pereira found that the faith she had relied on was failing her. Here she describes how she found other ways to begin healing and finding happiness.
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Maladaptive daydreaming, gender myths and me
Can you daydream too much? Excessive daydreamer Laura Grace Simpkins reflects on studies into “maladaptive daydreaming” and asks why so few fellow dreamers seem to be men.
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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 secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
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Proposals for insurance on marriage, by the True British Societies; at their Office, at the Vine, the lower end of St. Michael Crooked-Lane, London.
True British Societies.Date: 1710]- Books
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Select views of the life, reign, and character of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia. Containing, besides many profound Remarks on the prominent Features of the Reign and Character of that unrivalled Sovereign, Serving To Illustrati. His Posthumous Works, two very remarkable Letters of the Empress of Russia to the Author; a great Variety of Anecdotes, relating to eminent political and literary Characters of Great Britain, and other Countries; and also an authentic Exposition of the Origin and True Causes of the British Alliance with Prussia, &c. &c. Translated from the German of Dr. de Zimmerman, First Physician to his Britannic Majesty at Hanover, Knight of the Russian Order of Wlodimir, and Member of several Literary Societies. By Major Neuman, Of The Nassau Guards. ...
Zimmermann, Johann Georg, 1728-1795.Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]
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A mesmeric physician taking advantage of his female patient. Colour lithograph, 1852.
Date: [1852?]Reference: 563269iPart of: Morality of modern medicine-mongers. Dedicated to the husbands, fathers, and brothers, of England, and also to the societies for the prevention of vice
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A family doctor, an obstetrician, a sensationalist author-doctor and a hypnotist; all pruriently satirised under the guise of moralism, as promoted by James Morison and his pharmaceutical company. Lithograph, 1852.
Date: 1852Reference: 18140iPart of: Hygeian illustration- Books
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Select views of the life, reign, and character of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia. Containing, besides many profound Remarks on the prominent Features of the Reign and Character of that unrivalled Sovereign, serving to illustrate his posthumous Works, two very remarkable Letters of the Empress of Russia to the Author; a great Variety of Anecdotes, relating to eminent political and literary Characters of Great Britain, and other Countries; and also an authentic Exposition of the origin and true causes of the British Alliance with Prussia, &c. &c. Translated from the German of Dr. de Zimmerman, First Physician to his Britannic Majesty at Hanover, Knight of the Russian Order of Wlodimir, and Member of several Literary Societies. By Major Neuman, of the Nassau Guards. ...
Zimmermann, Johann Georg, 1728-1795.Date: 1792