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.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
- Article
Love, longing and tea from the polski sklep
For people of Polish origin in the UK, herbal tea is closely tied to health and shared history. Kasia Tomasiewicz explores her changing relationship to these tea-related cultural habits.
- Article
History of condoms from animal to rubber
Come on a journey from the first recorded condoms in the 16th century to the modern female condoms in the 1990s – and everything in between.
Catalogue
- Journals
- Online
The American Catholic sociological review
Date: 1940-1963- Journals
- Online
SA. Sociological analysis
Date: 1973-1992- Books
Healthcare in Ireland and Britain from 1850 : voluntary, regional and comparative perspectives / edited by Donnacha Seán Lucey and Virginia Crossman.
Date: [2014]- Books
The maladjusted child - the Underwood report and after : Proceedings of a conference held at the Church House, Westminster, London on 11th and 12th April, 1957.
National Association for Mental Health (Great Britain)Date: 1957]- Books
The mark of Cain : guilt and denial in the post-war lives of Nazi perpetrators / Katharina von Kellenbach.
Kellenbach, Katharina von, 1960-Date: [2013]