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Descendants have owned this downtown Wilmington home for more than 130 years
The DuBois-Boatwright House, a colonial house with a hall-and-parlor plan, was built for John DuBois, a merchant and colonial ...
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Ten pubs currently on the market in Cornwall with SBC Property
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Exhibition of Georgian gold and silver boxes sheds light on history of corporate gifting
In Georgian Dublin, gold and silver boxes were aspirational objects. They were expensive to buy and exquisitely made, mostly by a handful of goldsmiths, who lived and worked around Dublin Castle. The ...
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Lloyd’s Register ‘deeply sorry’ for part played in slave trade
Grant of £1m ‘just the beginning’ of plans to fund understanding of British shipping’s role in the 18th and 19th-century ...
Saving lives and limbs on the high seas: The extraordinary world of early modern ship's surgeons
Imagine you are at sea facing a violent battle with an enemy ship. The experienced 17th-century surgeon John Moyle asked his ...
A 1747 study found the treatment for scurvy. A man accused of ‘quackery’ may have inspired it
The design for a medical study in 1743 that was never carried out may have inspired James Lind’s groundbreaking clinical ...
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How an 18th century instrument maker may have inspired the first clinical trial of the modern age
The first controlled clinical trial recorded in the modern age, carried out in 1747 to test treatments for scurvy, may have ...