Stories
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The sickness in the wellness industry
In recovery from anorexia, Gwen Smith began to realise how the wellness industry needs its followers to feel bad about themselves in order to make money out them.
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Rose Mackenberg’s deceptive activism
Discover how a New York private investigator became part of Houdini’s mission to expose the fraudulent mediums making money from their vulnerable, grieving clients.
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Sockets and stumps
Historian Emily Mayhew has met soldiers who have survived the seemingly unsurvivable. Here, she explores the part prosthetics play in the process of military rehabilitation.
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A freezer full of breastmilk
When new mum Alev Scott began pumping her milk between feeds, she soon found she was freezing more breastmilk than her baby would ever need. So Alev began to investigate ways to share her oversupply.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
"Weight gain and pre-eclamptic toxaemia", Lancet, 7 Aug 1962
Date: 1962Reference: PP/CDW/J.5/4Part of: Williams, Cicely Delphine (1893-1992)- Books
Weight gains, serum protein levels, and health of breast fed and artificially fed infants, full term and premature : a clinical and biochemical study based on 946 infants and children at the Mothers' Hospital (Salvation Army) and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, London / B. Levin [and others].
Date: 1959- Books
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An essay to facilitate vulgar fractions; after a new method, and to make arithmetical operations very concise: Containing,. Many New and Excellent Rules on Vulgar Fractions and Mix'd Numbers; some Critical Observations on Numbers; Multiplication and Division of Money, Weight and Measure; with these following Practical Rules, viz. I. Fellowship, II. Barter, III. Loss and Gain, IV. Interest, V. Rebate or Discount, VI. Exchange. To which is annex'd, various practical and, lastly, Miscellaneous questions, with their answers. By W. Bridges, Schoolmaster in Rotterdam.
Bridges, William, schoolmaster in Rotterdam.Date: MDCCXVIII. [1718]
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What can I do to gain weight? / South Glamorgan Health Authority.
Date: [Between 1990 and 1998?]
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On the influence of the seasons of the year, employment, period of imprisonment, etc., on the gain or loss of weight, by the prisoners confined in the convict prison at Wakefield, between January 1, 1848, and December 31, 1857 / by W.R. Milner.
Milner, William Ralph.Date: 1859