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The Restoration was a decade of experimentation: from the founding of the Royal Society for investigating the sciences to the startling role of credit and...
At the end of the eighteenth century, Britain, and much of the Western world, fell in love with nature. Thomas Bewickâs History of British Birds marked the...
The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography contains essential details of the lives of over 2100 women from all periods, cultures and walks of...
In the 1760s a group of amateur experimenters met and made friends in the English Midlands. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the center of...