Stories
- Article
Keeping death close
Scattering her father’s ashes, Lauren Entwistle found herself longing for something physical that proved he once was a living, breathing person. Here she reflects on the objects that help us to grieve and remember.
- Book extract
Renaissance women and their killer cosmetics
In this extract from ‘How to be a Renaissance Woman’, Jill Burke delves into a complex world of beauty products, poison and patriarchy – and reveals the impossible contradictions of femininity faced by 16th-century women.
- Article
Indian botanicals and heritage wars
Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.
- Article
The girl with no name
When a now anonymous teenager sold her tooth for transplant, she couldn’t have predicted that she’d end up at the heart of a troubling story about 18th-century beauty ideals.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
'Love Beauty Philosophy, Purpose, The Mind, Compatability etc., Society and the Law'
Date: Not datedReference: PP/GDR/A/97Part of: Dick-Read, Grantly- Ephemera
Beauty ephemera. Box 4.
- Pictures
- Online
Analysis of beauty. Plate I.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764Date: March 5th 1753Reference: 38383iPart of: Analysis of beauty- Pictures
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Analysis of beauty. Plate II.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764Date: 5 March 1753Reference: 38384iPart of: Analysis of beauty- Books
- Online
Personal beauty.
Date: [Between 1860 and 1869?]