Stories
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Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
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A sermon preached before the Sons of the Clergy, in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, on Thursday, May 10, 1753. By Thomas Ashton, M. A. rector of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, and Fellow of Eton College. To which is annexed, a list of the Annual Amount of the Collection for this charity, from the Year 1721.
Ashton, Thomas, 1716-1775.Date: [1753]- Books
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A sermon preached at the evening-lecture in the Old Jewry on Sunday, November 18, 1753, on occasion of the death of the late Reverend James Foster, D. D. Who departed this Life, November 5, 1753, In the 56th Year of his Age. By Charles Bulkley.
Bulkley, Charles, 1719-1797.Date: [1753]- Books
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The miscellaneous works in verse and prose of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt. with memoirs of his life.
Overbury, Thomas, Sir, 1581-1613.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- Books
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An Act for continuing the duties upon salt, and upon red and white herrings, for the purposes therein mentioned.
Great Britain.Date: 1753]- Books
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The history of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. Translated from the original Spanish of Don Antonio de Solis, Secretary and Historiographer to His Catholick Majesty, by Thomas Townsend, Esq; The whole translation revised and corrected by Nathanael Hooke, Esq; Author of The Roman History, &c.
Solís, Antonio de, 1610-1686.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]