Stories
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Wool, fleas, plague
During the bubonic plague epidemic of 1665-6, the residents of Eyam in Derbyshire quarantined themselves to help prevent the disease spreading. Simon Norfolk tells the story of this small community’s sacrifice.
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Dress and the magic of touch
Fashion, of course, is largely about appearance, but the feeling of clothes on your skin is a complex sensory experience. Shahidha Bari contemplates the human connections in the business of creating and wearing clothes.
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Homes for the hives of industry
By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.
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You, a thousand years ago
Jack Hartnell argues that, if we were transported into the medieval past, we’d find ourselves somewhere different yet strangely familiar.
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Wool fibres
Macroscopic Solutions- Books
Wool-gathering, or, How I ended analysis / Dan Gunn.
Gunn, Daniel.Date: 2002- Books
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Wool encouraged without exportation; or, practical observations on wool and the woollen manufacture. In two parts. Part I. Containing Strictures on Appendix No IV. to a Report made by a Committee of the Highland Society, on the Subject of Shetland Wool. Part II. Containing a Brief History of Wool, and the Nature of the Woollen Manufacture as connected with it. By a Wiltshire clothier, F.A.S.
Wansey, Henry, 1751-1827.Date: 1791- Books
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Wool encouraged without exportation; or, practical observations on wool and the woollen manufacture. In two parts. Part I. Containing strictures on Appendix No IV. to a Report made by a Committee of the Highland Society, on the Subject of Shetland Wool. Part II. Containing a brief history of wool, and the nature of the woollen manufacture as connected with it. By a Wiltshire clothier, F.A.S.
Wansey, Henry, 1751-1827.Date: 1791- Books
Sid and Nancy : love kills / Alex Cox & Abbe Wool.
Cox, Alex, 1954-Date: 1986