Stories
- Article
Fighting shame by speaking out
Lucia Osborne-Crowley’s first instinct after being raped was to cover it up. Shame silenced her for ten years, but #MeToo gave her the courage to speak out.
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Shame, condemnation and conscience
Where does shame comes from and what fuels it? Lucia Osborne-Crowley explores audience, gender and the difference between shame and guilt, asking if either can ever be useful.
- 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.
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Why do victims become violent?
Witnessing both overt violence and coercive control can cause invisible harm to children. But preventing them from repeating that behaviour in the future remains a challenge.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
Bruised beaten pushed licked bullied ignored insulted violated abused murdered : enough is enough / The Lesbian & Gay Foundation.
Date: 2010- Ephemera
Is it a cut, bruise or chilblain? : Morris Evans' Household Ointment will cure it / Morris Evans & Co.
Morris Evans & Co.Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]- Books
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Mr. Thornton having received so violent a bruise by a fall from a horse, that confines him to his bed, 'tis humbly hoped the occasion will be an excuse for playing The beggar's opera this evening, instead of Matilda: ...
Swaffham Theatre.Date: 1775]
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Notes on the morbid anatomy of chronic rheumatic arthritis of the shoulder and other joints. Remarks on interstitial absorption of the neck of the femur from bruise of the hip, similarity of the morbid appearances to those seen in the rheumatic disease of this joint / by Edwin Canton.
Canton, Edwin, 1817-1885.Date: 1848- Pictures
The Virgin of Bruis. Print with letterpress.
Date: 1850Reference: 2045168i