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A drunken man at home with his starving and ruined family. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878Date: 1847Reference: 25966iPart of: The bottle- Videos
A diet for a lifetime.
Date: 1992- Books
Choroba głodowa : badania kliniczne nad głodem wykonane w getcie Warszawskim z roku 1942 / Emil Apfelbaum, redaktor.
Date: 1946- Books
From the deep of the sea : being the diary of the late Charles Edward Smith, M.R.C.S., surgeon of the whale-ship Diana, of Hull / edited by his son, Charles Edward Smith Harris.
Smith, Charles Edward, 1838-1879.Date: 1922- Books
The wilderness and its tenants : a series of geographical and other essays illustrative of life in a wild country, together with experiences and observations culled from the great book of nature in many lands / by John Madden.
Madden, JohnDate: 1897- Books
The fourth horseman : a short history of epidemics, plagues and other scourges / Andrew Nikiforuk.
Nikiforuk, Andrew, 1955-Date: 1993, ©1991- Videos
Causes of famine.
Date: 1985
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Observations on the connexion between famine and fever in Ireland, and elsewhere / by Henry Kennedy.
Kennedy, Henry, 1811?-1887.Date: 1847- Books
Human vitality and efficiency under prolonged restricted diet / by Francis G. Benedict [and others].
Date: 1919- Videos
Framing the famine.
Date: 1991
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A man, ruined through drink, sits at home with his poor, starving family. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.
Wilson, T. CDate: [1840?]Reference: 25951iPart of: The life of a working man
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The people of Moses receive manna from heaven in the wilderness. Engraving by B. Audran I after N. Poussin, 1637-1639.
Poussin, Nicolas, 1594?-1665Date: 1690-1699Reference: 18262i- Pictures
Ugolino, his sons and grandsons in a cell facing death by starvation. Mezzotint by J. Dixon after Sir J. Reynolds.
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792Date: Feby. 1st 1774Reference: 677389i
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A poor family starves in the centre of Paris: a workman brings them a bowl of soup, a banker for a "Philanthropic bank" ignores them, public funds are spent on a new stock exchange, and books are advertised advocating self-help. Lithograph by Villain after N.-T. Charlet, 1840.
Charlet, Nicolas-Toussaint, 1792-1845Date: 1840Reference: 32029i- Maps
Study in human starvation. 1, Sources of selected foods / [prepared by] the American Geographical Society ; E.D. Weldon, cartographer.
Date: 1953- Archives and manuscripts
Constipation, etc (2nd series)
Date: 1916-1948Reference: PP/FPW/B.72/2Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)- Ephemera
Helpez a Biafra : ,05.
Date: [1968?]- Books
Oxfam's practical guide to selective feeding programmes / by Oxfam Health Unit.
Date: 1984
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James Scott, Australian medical student lost in the Himalayas for forty-three days without food, drinking from a snowball to rehydrate in the afternoon sun. Drawing by M. H. Boscott, 1993.
Boscott, Martin Howard, active 1979-Date: 1993Reference: 485564iPart of: James Scott Himalayan Survivor Noesis Series- Books
Poverty and famines : an essay on entitlement and deprivation / Amartya Sen.
Sen, Amartya, 1933-Date: 1981- Books
Breakfast in hell : a doctor's eyewitness account of the politics of hunger in Ethiopia / Myles F. Harris.
Harris, Myles FDate: [1987], ©1987