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19th-century paintings show first hints of post-industrial climate change
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The BBC's Diane Cole reports on an exhibition of 19th-century paintings believed to depict the early signs of climate change introduced ...
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A history of the pharmaceutical industry
Similarly, whilst GlaxoSmithKline’s origins can be traced back as far as 1715, it was only in the middle of the 19th century that Beecham became involved in the industrial production of medicine ...
Passaic County's Revolutionary War, industrial, baseball history to be focus of TV shows
Passaic County's history will be the focus of two episodes of 'Travels with Darley' to air March 22 and March 29.
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Government interventions in healthcare during the 19th and 20th centuries
The Industrial Revolution had made Britain into ... the interior of a Dorchester labourer's cottage in the early 19th century. Poor living conditions caused numerous health issues.
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Out of the Attic: Mid-19th century women’s fashion in Alexandria
Although men were the primary landowners, women often oversaw the property rights of the land during the Civil War in ...
Queer theatre in the 19th century was a place of codes, cross-dressing and blackmail
The theatre offered queer Victorian men a space to express their identities, at a time when homosexuality was criminalised.
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The 19th Amendment was a key step for women's rights in the U.S.
Though local suffrage slowly opened to women in many states, suffragists continued their fight for national voting rights through the 19th century. Mocked, jailed, beaten, and force-fed ...