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    "We didn't know aught" : a study of sexuality, superstition and death in women's lives in Lincolnshire during the 1930s, '40s and '50s / Maureen Sutton ; [foreword by Morag McGill].

    | Sutton, Maureen, 1942- | Date: 1992
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    Facing death : 27-28 January, at the National Portrait Gallery : programme / Wellcome Trust.

    | Date: 2005
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    The new black : mourning, melancholia and depression / Darian Leader.

    | Darian Leader | Date: 2008
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    Before modern medicine : diseases & yesterday's remedies : using documents from the Hudson's Bay Company archives, the provincial archives of Manitoba & the national archives of Canada / Elizabeth Briggs & Colin J. Briggs.

    | Briggs, Elizabeth | Date: [1998]
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    Life and death in fifteenth-century Florence / edited by Marcel Tetel, Ronald G. Witt, and Rona Goffen.

    | Date: 1989
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