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The mystery of the Black Death.
Date: 2004- Books
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Plagues ancient and modern, or, The Black Death and the sweating sickness / by Joseph Frank Payne.
Payne, Joseph Frank, 1840-1910.Date: 1889- Books
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The interest of England, in relation to Protestant dissenters: in a letter, to the Right Reverend, the Bishop of - . By an impartial hand.
Impartial hand.Date: [1714]- Books
The story of medicine : from the Black Death to Florence Nightingale / from the makers of BBC History Magazine.
Date: 2017- Books
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The preaching-Weathercock: a paradox, proving Mr. W- R-Dson (lately a dissenting minister, and now a presbiter of the Church of England) will cant, recant, and re-recant, till (to prove he is no Schismatick) he has set his religion and conscience to all the points of the compass: Fairly argued from - The Secret History of his Life, Conversation and Doctrines - Whilst (tho' a Presbyterian) he stickled hard to be chose Pastor to an Independent Congregation in Moorfields; - Or, a Letter to that Universal Turncoat, concerning his so often changing his Religion. The whole Compleating the Weathercock-Paradox in III Parts. Written by John Dunton, a true and constant Son of the Church of England, without Respect to Parties, and Author of those Two Answers to Dean Kennet, and Dr. Sacheverel, intituled - The Bull-Baiting, - and Hazard of a Death-Bed-Repentance.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: [1712]- Books
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Some thoughts concerning the study of the laws of England. Particularly in the two universities. In a letter to the Reverend Head of - College in Oxford. Written by Thomas Wood, LL. D. and Barrister at Law; Author of the Institute of the Laws of England.
Wood, Thomas, 1661-1722.Date: M.DCC.XXVII. [1727]- Books
Life between islands : Caribbean-British art 1950s - now / edited by Alex Farquharson and David A. Bailey.
Date: 2021- Archives and manuscripts
Sudden Infant Death: papers etc by others
Date: 1973-1987Reference: PP/AMS/D.3/26Part of: Alice Stewart (1906-2002)- Books
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God's call of his ministers, in a sermon preach'd in the Parish - Church Of St. Mary White-Chappel, On Sunday the 16th of Septemb. 1711. By William Richardson, lately a Dissenting Preacher in Pia-Maker's Hall, and St. John Clerkenwel, London; but now Canonically Ordain'd a Presbyter of the Church of England.
Richardson, William, active 1706-1712.Date: [1712?]- Books
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Death of several horses from feeding on oats affected with fungi / by Assistant-Professor Varnell.
Varnell, G. (George)Date: 1862- Ephemera
Death and dying ephemera. Box 1.
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The new and complete book of martyrs, or, an universal history of martyrdom: being Fox's Book of martyrs, revised and corrected with Additions and great Improvements. Containing Not only a New, Copious, Complete, Universal and Authentic Account of the Lives, Actions, Characters, Trials, Religious Principles, Sufferings, Tortures, and Triumphant Deaths, of the English Protestant Martyrs, In the Reign of Queen Mary the First. But also a Genuine, Full, and Circumstantial History of all the many dreadful and cruel Persecutions against the Church of Christ, in all Parts of the World, by Papists, Pagans, Jews, Turks, and Others, From the very Earliest Ages of the Church, to the Present Period. Comprehending the Life, Meritorious Sufferings, and Martyrdom of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, with the Martyrdoms of the Apostles, Evangelists, Disciples, and other Primitive Martyrs. - And including the Ten Great Persecutions, under the Roman Emperors, and many other Particulars under the following General Heads: An Ecclesiastical History of the Persecutions in Persia, under Sapores: and the Persecutions under the Arian Vandals. - The horried Persecutions under the Papacy; particularly the Martyrdoms of the Waldenses and Albigenses in France. - The Persecutions in Germany and Poland. - The Cruelties exercised in Bohemia and Lusatia. - The Martyrdoms in Italy. - The shocking Barbarities practised by the Inquisitions of Spain, Portugal, Goa, &c. and the Popish Persecutions of the Protestants during the Massacre of Paris. - A full Account of all the English Martyrdoms, particularly those in the Times of King Henry Viii. and Queen Mary I. wherein are amply displayed all the Butcheries, Tortures, and Cruelties exercised by the Roman Catholics against the Protestants, in the Reign of that tyrannical King and bloody Queen. - The Persecutions of the Quakers, &c. - Persecutions in the West of England by Judge Jeffreys. - Persecutions in Holland, Flanders, Scotland, &c. - The bloody Irish Massacre. - The great Spanish Invasion. - The dreadful Fire of London. - The shocking Gunpowder Plot. - The horrid Conspiracies in 1678. - The barbarous Murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey, and the Designs of Perkins, Friend, and Fenwick, for the Re-Establishment of Popery, and the Extirpation of Protestantism. - The Martyrdoms of the Missionaries in China. - The Persecutions in the East-Indies. - The Barbarities exercised in America. - The Cruelties practised on the Christians of Abyssinia and Georgia. - The late Persecutions in France against the Calas Family. - Also the final Establishment of the Reformed Religion in the various Protestant Countries. - With a great Number of other Cruelties exercised against the Christian Martyrs, not related in any other Work of the Kind. Together with the Martyrdoms of The Faithful and Virtuous in the first Ages of the World; the Persecutions of the Maccabees by the Greeks; of the Hebrews by the Egyptians; and of the Children of Israel by the Philistiries, and other barbarous Nations. Throughout this Work will be Interspersed Accounts of several singular Judgments against Persecutors, a great Variety of Original Anecdotes, the Letters which passed between the Martyrs, Letters from Bishop Bonner, and other Papists, to the Magistrates, &c. concerning the Methods of Indictment and Treatment, Translations of Popish Bulls, and other Deeds of Destruction, levelled against the Protellants, in England, Scotland, Ireland, &c. &c. suitable Notes and practical Reflections adapted to the various Subjects, and many curious Lives and Memoirs; to which will be added; an Account of the Life and Death of the original Author, the Rev. Mr. John Fox. The Whole Forming At Once A General Christian Martyrology, and Complete History of Persecutions. A Work Calculated to promote the Protestant Religion, and expel Romish Superstition, and by giving a pious and Christian Turn to the Mind, be general Use and Advantage to Mankind. The whole originally composed by the Rev. Mr. John Fox, M. A. formerly of Magdalen College, Oxford, And Prebendary in the Church of Balisbury; And now revised, corrected and improved, with many necessary additional Articles relating to the Acts and Monuments of the Church, not to be found in any other Publication of this Sort, and written in a clear intelligible Stile, free from that Obscurity of Language, and Tediousness of Diction, as well as that impertect Brevity and Coheiseness, which have been so much complained of in former Works of this kind. By Paul Wright, D. D. F. S. A. Vicar of Oakley and Rector of Snoreham in Essex. late of Pembroke-Hall, Cambridge; and Author of the Complete British Family Bible, and of the New and Complete Life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, elegantly printed in Folio; both of which Works (with the inimitable Sets of fine Copper-Plates) have met with universal Approbation, as the best and most perfectly complete Works of the Kind, for the Use of all Christian Families. Embellished with a great variety of copper-plates, representing the various Modes of cruelly torturing the Christian Martyrs for their Constancy.
Foxe, John, 1516-1587.Date: [1800?]- Books
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Notes on typhoid and remittent fevers in the Cape, Natal, and Zululia / by W.T. Black.
Black, William Thomas, 1824-1909.Date: 1879- Books
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The life and astonishing adventures of John Daniel, a smith at Royston in Hertfordshire, for a course of seventy years. Containing, The melancholy Occasion of his Travels, His Shipwreck with one Companion on a desolate Island. Their way of Life. His accidental discovery of a Woman for his Companion. Their peopling the Island. Also a description of a most surprising eagle, invented by his son Jacob, on which he flew to the moon, with some Account of its Inhabitants. His return, and accidental Fall into the Habitation of a Sea Monster, with whom he lived two Years. His further Excursions in Search of England. His Residence in Lapland, and Travels to Norway, from whence he arrived at Aldborough, and further Transactions till his Death, in 1711. Aged 97.
Date: M.DCC.LXX. [1770]- Books
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Death by electric currents and by lightning : the Goulstonian lectures for 1913 delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London / by A.J. Jex-Blake.
Jex-Blake, Arthur John, 1873-1957.Date: 1913- Books
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A genuine, impartial, and authentick account of the life of William Parsons, Esq; executed at Tyburn, Monday, Feb. 11, 1751, for returning from transportation. Containing, the particulars of his whole life, from his Birth to his Death; taken from memoirs of his own hand-writing, and communicated by him to a person who attended him during the whole time of his confinement in Newgate. Wherein is a True Account of his Amours, his Forgeries, and other Villanies - his Behaviour bothhere and Abroad - a particular Account of the Robberies he committed while in America, as well as the Particulars of those he committed in England since his Return from Transportation (which he revealed but the Night before his Execution) - his Behaviour in Newgate, and other remarkable Matters, well worthy the Perusal of the Publick. To which is added, by Way of Appendix, Exact Copies of many remarkable Letters that pass'd between him and several Persons while he was in Newgate; particularly to and from his Father, his Wife, his Brother and Sister, Mr. Fuller, to a noble Earl, &c. &c. the Originals of which are in the Hands of C. Corbett, in Fleet-Street.
Parsons, William, 1717-1751.Date: [1751]- Archives and manuscripts
Explorers Cuttings Book 7
The Wellcome Foundation LtdDate: 1935 - 1940Reference: WF/M/GB/35/04Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Pictures
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The dance of death: the sot. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 1816Reference: 32666iPart of: English dance of death, from the designs of Thomas Rowlandson, with metrical illustrations, by the author of "Dr Syntax".- Pictures
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The dance of death: the maiden ladies. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 1816Reference: 32687iPart of: English dance of death, from the designs of Thomas Rowlandson, with metrical illustrations, by the author of "Dr Syntax".- Books
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Hume's History of England, with Portraits. On Saturday, May 2, will be Published, Price one shilling, (to be continued Weekly till the whole is completed) No I. Containing Six Sheets of Letter-Press, and a Head of the Author engraved by Collyer, of the History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688. By David Hume, Esq; With the Author's last Corrections and Improvements. Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand; and sold by T. Longman, No. 39, Paternoster-Row. Conditions. I. The Work will make Eight Volumes in Octavo, handsomely printed on a large Letter and on a Medium Paper. II. Each Number will contain Five or more Sheets, so that the whole may not exceed Forty-Eight Numbers, at One Shilling each. III. In the course of the Work will be given a series of Portraits of the different Sovereigns of England from the Conquest to the Revolution, engraved from original Pictures by Hall, Sherwin, Heath, Collyer, &c. &c. and ornamented with new emblematical Designs by Stothard. IV. In the course of publication will be given an Account of the Life of the Author written by Himself, and a copious Index. V. Most of the Plates are already finished, and Specimens of the Print, Paper, and Engravings, may be seen at the Publisher's. - In order to form a complete History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Death of George the Second, the Proprietors intend to publish, immediately after Mr. Hume's History is completed, in Weekly Numbers, Dr. Smollett's History from the Revolution to the Death of George the Second; and that the Paper, Print, and Portraits shall in every respect correspond with the above Work.
Hume, David, 1711-1776.Date: 1782]- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 5
Date: Jan 1899 - Aug 1901Reference: WF/E/01/01/05Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Explorers Cuttings Book 4
The Wellcome Foundation LtdDate: 1924 - 1930Reference: WF/M/GB/35/03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Explorers Cuttings Book 2
The Wellcome Foundation LtdDate: 1912 - 1921Reference: WF/M/GB/35/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL {WOODSIDE HOSPITAL}
Date: 1750 - 2001Reference: H64- Archives and manuscripts
Company-wide Newsletters & Journals (internal)
Date: 1942 - 2000Reference: WF/M/PB/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd