London’s Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital In 1739, Captain Thomas Coram was dismayed at the sight...
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The Economics of the Very Long Run: From Fire to Finance in Two Million Years An economist's view of two million years of human history...
The Beginning and the End: Images of the Universe Creation and Last Judgement, or Big Bang and Gravitational Collapse...
From Jenner to Wakefield: The long shadow of the anti-vaccination movement In 1998 a medical furore broke out when The Lancet...