The Natural History Museum Fossil Porifera Collection

This article provides updated information about the Porifera Collection at The Natural History Museum (NHM), London. With very little information available regarding fossil sponge digitization or any similar initiative, this paper covers the type and figured specimens and drawer label content data of the Porifera Collection and also describes the collection and its research potential. With approximately 71,000 specimens, of which more than 60% are Mesozoic, the NHM holdings offer the best Mesozoic sponge collection in the world and one of the most important due to its breadth and depth. The Porifera Collection covers all stratigraphic periods and all taxonomic groups and includes almost 3000 cited and figured specimens including types. Although most of the specimens come from the British Isles, worldwide samples are also present, with abundant specimens from other Commonwealth countries and from Antarctica.The attached document is the author(’s’) final accepted/submitted version of the journal article. You are advised to consult the publisher’s version if you wish to cite from it

English gilds. The original ordinances of more than one hundred early English gilds: Together with þe olde vsages of þe cite of Wynchester; the Ordinances of Worcester; the Office of the mayor of Bristol; and the Costomary of the manor of Tettenhall-Regis. From original mss. of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

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The history of Greece.

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The history of England.

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The illustrated history of England. By Thomas Keightley.

2 v. in 1 fronts., plates 24 cm

The Victorian press coverage of the 1842 report on child labour. The metamorphosis of images

This article aims to explore the Victorian press iconographic coverage of the first illustrated parliamentary report ever produced in the United Kingdom. Published in 1842, The First Report on the Condition and Treatment of the Children Employed in the Mines and Collieries of the United Kingdom showed children and women working half-naked underground. The report on child labour has attracted the attention of social and medical historians, political economists and scholars of gender studies. Scant consideration has been given to the study of the afterlife of its images, which were widely disseminated through media outlets. This article concerns the transformative processes the original images underwent in order to be published in newspapers and periodicals of the time. It will show how the report’s engravings were retouched, cut and laid out in a selection of publications in order to enhance their marketability. I suggest that the copies of the illustrations that appeared in the Victorian press reinforced the ideological premise of the report. However, the metamorphosis of the images challenged the idea that the reality of the miners was a unique and unequivocally observable fact, and subtly disputed the role of the state as a provider of authoritative and accurate visual evidence in the form of parliamentary reports