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...English Letters appear in 1734 and are a very early example of the great valuation that the Philosophs put upon his technique. The article in the Encyclopaedia is enormously long in comparison to the apparently insignificant nature of the procedure. One of the things about inoculation that must have appealed to the Philosophs was it’s simplicity, this wasn’t an arcane...

...everyday lives can provide the most fruitful source for stories. And sometimes the mundane mixed with the fantastical can be amusing too...Week 1: Starting to write fiction: 1.2 Creating your own space - Figure 3 Start a ‘writer’s notebook’ to collect facts and fictions, observations from everyday life and things you imagine. Your notebook, or journal, should be...

...English prison. Originally drawn in the late 1700s by Francis Wheatley. Note the squalor of the prison, the lack of separation between men and women, and the presence of children, imprisoned with their mothers. Howard’s work was extremely influential and informed a raft of legislation which encouraged local authorities to reform their prisons. Between 1780 and 1799,...