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Daylight must come : the story of Dr. Helen Roseveare / by Alan Burgess.
Burgess, Alan, 1915-1998.Date: 1975- Books
Daylight : its nature, therapeutic properties, measurement and legal protection / [John Swarbrick] ; foreword by Rt. Hon. Lord Horder.
Swarbrick, John, 1879-1964.Date: 1953- Archives and manuscripts
108663/Z/15/Z: Standard Deviation: Daylight, Darkness, Time and the Body
Date: c.2015Reference: WT/C/6/3/58Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
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The waste of daylight : text of the Daylight Saving Bill, opinions of eminent men, statement of progress to March, 1914.
Willett, William, 1856-1915.Date: 1914- Books
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Every man entertained: or, select histories: giving an account of persons who have been most eminently distinguish'd by their virtues or vices, their Perfections or Defects, either of Body or Mind. The Whole collected from the best Authors, with the Addition of several curious Particulars never before published; and digested under the following Heads: Apparitions. Persons who have return'd to Life after they have been supposed to be dead. Great Sleepers, and Walkers in their Sleep. Great Eaters and Drinkers. Vast Strength of some Persons. Persons wonderfully preserv'd from Death. Extraordinary Longevity. Giants and Dwarfs. Monstrous and preternatural Births. Strange Discoveries of Murder. The Strength of Imagination. Great Memory. Singular Chastity. Pride and Ambition. Instance of Temperance and long Abstinence. Dreams, Presages, and Predictions. Magicians, Wizards, and Witches. Loving Husbands and Wives.
Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]- Ephemera
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Burdock Blood Bitters : plain as daylight.
Date: [between 1880 and 1899?]- Books
Now I know, daylight: responses to Untitled No 1 (1981) by Agnes Martin
Porter, Richard- Books
The penetration of daylight into buildings / by A.E. Richards.
Richards, A. E.Date: 1936- Pictures
Day dawns at the cave of Belarius: Guiderius and Arviragus follow him out into the daylight; representing morning. Engraving by I. Taylor jr after R. Smirke.
Smirke, Robert, 1752-1845.Date: Dec.r 20 1782Reference: 2913420i- Books
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The destruction of daylight : a study in the smoke problem / by John W. Graham.
Graham, John W. (John William)Date: 1907- Pictures
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A town gentleman visiting a village dentist and enquiring if he uses gas, the dentist retorts he does but prefers daylight. Process print after G. Du Maurier, 1895.
Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.Date: 1895Reference: 15538i- Pictures
An alchemist stoking a furnace in a dimly lit room, as daylight shines through a window. Engraving by P-F. Basan after T. Wyck.
Wyck, Thomas, approximately 1616-1677.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 36100i- Pictures
A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.
Smith, George, 1829-1901.Date: [1871]Reference: 574955i- Pictures
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A clog-carver working in a daylight-basement with a window on to the street; another man sits on a stool in the street talking to him while smoking a pipe; a dog sleeps on the roof over the window. Etching by Adriaen van Ostade.
Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685.Date: 1671Reference: 29848i- Books
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A royal almanack and meteorological diary for the year of our Lord 1778, and of the Julian period 6491, the second after bissextile or Leap-Year, and the eighteenth year of the reign of His Majesty King George III. Containing, The Feasts and Fasts of the Church of England; The Times of the Lunations; The Rising and Setting of the Sun; The Equation of Time for the Regulating of Clocks and Watches; The Moon's Rising and Setting; The Times of High Water at London-Bridge, Morning and Afternoon; The Aspects of the Planets and Weather; Also, for every Sixth Day, The Increase and Decrease of Days; The Beginning and End of Daylight; The Nightly Rising, Southing, and Setting of the Planets and Seven Stars; Adapted to the Meridian and Latitude of London. Likewise, An exact Meteorological Journal for the preceding Year; or the State of the Barometer and Thermometer, with the Winds, Weather, &c. as they were registered every Day. Also, The Depth of Rain which sell, and the Observations made every Month. To which are added, The Eclipses of the Sun and Moon, and other remarkable Phaenomena that will happen this Year; The Middlesex Commencement of the Sessions of the Peace; A Table of the Terms and their Returns; And for finding the Times of High Water at most of the Seaports in this Kingdom. By Henry Andrews, Teacher of the Mathematics, at Royston, Herts.
Andrews, Henry, active 18th century.Date: [1778]- Digital Images
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Nepal; tenements, old and new, Kathmandu, 1986. Builders erecting new apartments on the site of an old tenement block. Once erected, the residents of the existing four-storey tenement block will have their daylight extinguished. A woman picks her way across the building site from her home to the street.
Carole Reeves- Pictures
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A man cutting gems using a treadle at his bench before a large window. Woodcut by J. Amman.
Amman, Jost, 1539-1591.Date: [1568]Reference: 34972i- Pictures
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Various studies of light on trees. Watercolours.
Reference: 22396i- Archives and manuscripts
Bird Migration
Date: early 20th centuryReference: PP/ESS/E.13Part of: Scientific interests of ESS- Audio
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Frank Rowntree compilation recordings. Part 3, Track 14.
Date: 1972- Pictures
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Birds attacking an owl resting upon a staff held by a naked woman; representing patience. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
Murer, Christoph, 1558-1614.Date: 1622Reference: 26699iPart of: XL Emblemata miscella nova- Pictures
Sailing ships at sea; a man dreaming; other subjects. Coloured magic lantern slides.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 748222i- Archives and manuscripts
Chengail: Strike and lock out, 24 Aug - 15 Sep 1955
Date: 1955Reference: SA/TIH/B/2/4/3/2/6Part of: Tavistock Institute of Human Relations- Pictures
Joshua commanding the sun and moon to stand still. Engraving by G. Ferroni after C. Maratta.
Maratti, Carlo, 1625-1713.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 2133524i- Archives and manuscripts
Haweis, Mary Eliza
Date: May 1882Reference: GALTON/2/7/2/4/18Part of: Galton Papers