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The games cooks play : non-sense recipes and practical jokes in medieval literature / Melitta Weiss Adamson.
Adamson, Melitta WeissDate: 1995- Pictures
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A parson being put into bed with an ass dressed in a frilled nightgown, as a practical joke. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1814.
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830.Date: 1 February [1814]Reference: 38424i- Pictures
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A boy appearing to two girls as a ghost. Stipple engraving after R. Westall.
Westall, Richard, 1765-1836.Reference: 11546i- Pictures
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Two university teachers walking in a crypt are tripped up and assaulted by students. Coloured etching by Thomas Rowlandson, 1811.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: Jany. 28 1811Reference: 35674i- Books
Joco-seriorum naturae et artis, sive magiae naturalis centuriae tres / [Anon.] Accessit diattibe [sic] de prodigiosis crucibus [by A. Kircher].
Schott, Gaspar, 1608-1666.Date: [1666]- Pictures
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Road-racers on hand-cycles (above); a Japanese joins together with a rod the shoes of two Europeans so that they cannot walk (below). Colour process print, 1909.
Date: [15 September 1909]Reference: 730337i- Books
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The Pleasant history of the frolicksome courtier, and the jovial tinker. Full of wit and merriment.
Date: 1775?]- Books
Merrie conceited iests of George Peele, gentleman, sometimes student in Oxford. Wherein is shewed the course of his life. How he lived, a man very well knowne in the city of London and elsewhere.
Date: 1809- Pictures
A surgeon applying the method of cupping to Ragotin, who believes his body has swelled in his sleep. Engraving by G. Huquier the elder after J.B. Oudry.
Oudry, Jean-Baptiste, 1686-1755.Date: [1736]Reference: 23083i- Pictures
The abbé de Gondi being exorcised by Carthusian monks. Engraving by Ferdinand after N. Thomas.
Thomas, N. (Napoléon)Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 2821863i- Pictures
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A surgeon bleeding Ragotin's arm - upon waking and attempting to get dressed he discovered his clothes were too tight and he believes his body has swollen in the night. Engraving.
Reference: 22994i- Books
Drawn to sex : the basics / created by Erika Moen & Matthew Nolan.
Moen, Erika, 1983-Date: 2018- Books
Imprisoned with COVID-19 / Tim Spock.
Spock, TimDate: 2021- Archives and manuscripts
Onufrio, Tullio
Onufrio, TullioDate: 1630-1635Reference: MS.581- Books
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Sir John Fielding's jests; or, new fun for the parlour and kitchen: being The Smartest, Wittiest, and Drollest Collection of Original Jests, Jokes, Repartees, &c. ever yet published. Containing, Particularly the following Facetious and Merry Variety, viz. The Newest Jests Lively Puns Most Poignant Repartees, Choice Bonmots, Strange Blunders, Humorous Adventures Pleasant Tales, New Conundrums, Puzzling Riddles, Queer Sayings, Comical Hobnobs, Laughable Anecdotes, Droll Stories, Best Rebusses, Most curious Epitaphs, Keen and Satyrical Epigrams, Approved Aenigmas, Irish Bulls, Witty Quibbles, Diverting Acrostics, Arch Waggaries, Temporary Squibs, Merry Poems, and Other Wittieisms, &c. &c. Among which are particularly noticed all those jokes that have passed upon various examinations at the Public office, before the late Sir John Fielding and other Magistrates , and which have occasioned even Justice itself to relax and give Countenance to a Smile. The whole Carefully transcribed from Original Manuscript Remarks, and Notes made on such Occasions, and at the Shakespeare, Bedford Arms, and Rose Taverns; Bedford and Piazza Coffee Houses; Jupps, and other Places of Evening Entertainment and Convivial Mirth, near Covent-Garden; where the above Celebrated Genius and his Jovial Companions (the drollest Wits of the present Age) usually met to Kill Care and promote the Practice of Mirth and Good Humour. Compiled by a Justice of the Peace.
Fielding, John, Sir, 1721-1780.Date: [1781]- Books
Janet & me : an illustrated story of love and loss / Stan Mack.
Mack, Stanley.Date: 2004- Pictures
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As Lord Glenelg slumbers in a chair Lord Melbourne takes from his pocket the colonial seals and Lord Duncannon takes the privy seals. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1839.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Date: 3 December 1838Reference: 36872iPart of: HB sketches- Pictures
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Mrs Pottleton thinks her husband is going to give her a harmonium but he gives her a sewing machine instead. Wood engraving after C. Keene, 1869.
Keene, Charles, 1823-1891.Date: [1869]Reference: 35340i- Videos
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Help! : A first aid film by Elastoplast.
Date: 1952- Film
Help! : A first aid film by Elastoplast.
Date: 1952- Videos
Help! : A first aid film by Elastoplast.
Date: 1952- Videos
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Enrolled nurse.
Date: 1962- Videos
Britain's greatest hoax.
Date: 2003- Books
Run, Spot, run : the ethics of keeping pets / Jessica Pierce.
Pierce, Jessica, 1965-Date: 2016- Books
Creative arts therapies manual : a guide to the history, theoretical approaches, assessment, and work with special populations of art, play, dance, music, drama, and poetry therapies / edited by Stephanie L. Brooke, PH.D., NCC.
Date: [2006]