Stories
- 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
Beating the bodysnatchers
When a rise in grave robbing called for strong measures, mortsafes became the unassailable solution. Allison C. Meier explores.
- Article
Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
- 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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Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Burking Miscellany
Date: 1831Reference: MS.7058- Archives and manuscripts
The Quizzical Gazette: or: Moral and Satirical Reflector, No. XVI, almost entirely concerned with the Burking case
Date: 10th December 1831Reference: MS.7058/2Part of: Burking Miscellany- Archives and manuscripts
Confession of Thomas Williams, 2 parts
Date: 3rd December 1831Reference: MS.7058/6Part of: Burking Miscellany- Archives and manuscripts
Print of Bishop, Williams and May in the dock at Bow Street, origin unknown
Date: c.1831Reference: MS.7058/3Part of: Burking Miscellany- Archives and manuscripts
Handbill describing trial of Bishop, Williams and May
Date: 2nd December 1831Reference: MS.7058/1Part of: Burking Miscellany