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Female masturbation and the perils of pleasure
| Dr Kate Lister
Dr Kate Lister exposes the brutal 19th-century ‘cures’ for women who indulged in masturbation.
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Dirt, disease and the Inspector of Nuisances
| Kristen den Hartog
In the days when ‘bad air’ was thought to spread disease, dozens of Inspectors of Nuisances ceaselessly struggled against the perils of dirt – both visible and invisible.