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Syphilitic City: one in five Georgian Londoners had syphilis by their mid-30s, study suggests

06 Jul 2020

250 years ago, over one-fifth of Londoners had been treated for syphilis by their 35th birthday, historians have calculated.

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London鈥檚 forgotten businesswomen

20 Sep 2019

A new exhibition celebrates the City of London's 18th-century female entrepreneurs

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Workhouse Women in St. Giles's Church by Charles Holroyd (1880-84). 漏Trustees of the British Museum

Historian uncovers new evidence of 18th century London's 'Child Support Agency'

26 Jul 2018

How 18th and 19th century London supported its unmarried mothers and illegitimate children 鈥 essentially establishing an earlier version of today鈥檚...

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Detail from plate 5 of Hogarth鈥檚 鈥淎 Harlot鈥檚 Progress鈥, with the protagonist, Moll, dying of syphilis.

Pox populi: Study calculates 18th century syphilis rates for first time

14 Sep 2017

探花直播unlikely coincidence of a local hospital record and a census led by a pioneering physician has enabled the first study charting rates of venereal...

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Earliest-known children鈥檚 adaptation of Japanese literary classic discovered in British Library

14 Jun 2017

A chance discovery in the British Library has led to the discovery and reproduction of the earliest-known children鈥檚 adaptation of one of Japan鈥檚...

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Robert Morden, A New Map of England (1673) (detail)

探花直播Channel: a historian鈥檚 view of an iconic stretch of water

30 Mar 2016

Water joins as well as divides 鈥 and maritime communities often defy the borders imposed by the state. In the first book of its kind, Dr Renaud...

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" 探花直播Code Of Honor鈥擜 Duel In  探花直播Bois De Boulogne, Near Paris", wood engraving by Godefroy Durand

To the death

13 Jul 2015

Dr John Leigh has written the first book exclusively devoted to the duel in literature. In Touch茅, he offers a compelling picture of the ways in...

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Derge iron water bottle.

Where to find a dragon in Cambridge

24 Jun 2015

探花直播Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, D is for...

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Stourbridge Common

Stirbitch: mapping the unmappable

16 Jan 2015

Dr Michael Hrebeniak describes himself as inveterately curious about people and places. His fascination for a messy patch of Cambridge, best known...

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Remember, remember: how education 鈥渂eyond the seas鈥 kept Catholicism alive

05 Nov 2014

Bonfire night marks a plot in 1605 to burn down the Houses of Parliament. It鈥檚 also a reminder of the ferocious divides that existed between...

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Dancing at the opening of a stupa in Shatta village

Creating a shared resource for the endangered culture of the Kalmyks

21 Sep 2014

Almost four centuries ago, ancestors of the Kalmyk people trekked across central Asia to form a Buddhist nation on the edge of Europe. Today Kalmyk...

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Carbon nanotechnology

How carbon cousins shaped warfare and can electrify the future

13 Jun 2014

What links legendarily sharp Damascene swords of the past with flexible electronics and high-performance electrical wiring of the future? They all...

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