Stories
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Menstruation, magic and moon myths
Why do stories cloaking periods in magic and mystery persist? Pragya Agarwal argues against myth-making and for inclusive menstrual education, grounded in fact.
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The Ladies of Llangollen
As we celebrate LGBT History Month, Sarah Bentley explores the relationship between the two 18th-century women known as the Ladies of Llangollen.
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Crones
Menopause can be tough when nobody talks about it and all the stereotypes are negative, but it can also be transformative, marking the start of a new stage of life - cronehood.
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Acid and the sexual psychonauts
How LSD fuelled one woman’s journey of sexual self-discovery in the late 1950s.
Catalogue
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To the ladies. Cheap Petticoats, Cloaks, Mercery, Linen-Drapery, &c. George Murry, (successor to Mr. Thornton,) At His warehouse, No 339, Oxford-Street, The Corner of Queen-Street, Facing Portland-Street.
Murry, George.Date: 1791?]- Books
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Whipping-Tom: or, a rod for a proud lady, bundled up in four feeling discourses, Both Serious and Merry. In order to touch The Fair Sex to the Quick. I. Of the foppish mode of taking snuff. II. Of the Expensive Use of Drinking Tea. III. Of their Ridiculous Walking in red Cloaks, like Soldiers. IV. Of their immodest wearing hoop-petticoats. To which is added, a new satyr, for the use of the female voluntiers in Hyde-Park.
Date: 1722- Books
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The second part of Whipping-Tom: or, a rod for a proud lady. Bundled up in five feeling discourses, both serious and merry. In Order to Touch The Fair Sex to the Quick. The Modern Vanity of taking Poisonous Snuff. Drinking Debilitating Tea. Walking in Scarlet Cloaks. Wearing the Screen for Great Bellies, call'd Hoop-Petticoats. And Unnecessary Toilets. The whole intermix'd with Recipe's for curing The Womens-Evil, and Inoculating Youth and Beauty upon Old Disfigur'd Beaux and Ladies. Also a poem, intitled, The Virgin's Dream; And, a Satyr on the Rise and Fall of Pride, &c. Written by the Author of the First Part.
Date: [1722]- Pictures
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Men in cloaks with large hats and women in dresses and jackets with flat hats. Etching.
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The works of the author of Whipping-Tom, wherein are contain'd all his treatises both serious and merry. His rod for a proud lady; In Two parts: Which touches the fair Sex to the quick, for taking Snuff, drinking Tea, wearing red Cloaks, and Hoop-Petticoats, and using Toilets; with Recipe's for curing the Womens Evil, and inoculating Youth and Beauty upon old disfigur'd Beaux and Ladies. II. Democritus, the laughing philosopher's trip into England; or seven Days Amusements, intermixt with uncommon Reflections on the Follies and Vices of both Sexes of all Religions, in London and Westminster. III. An essay in praises of knavery. IV. A general key to the writings of the poets of the Last Age. Wherein their Beauties and Excellencies, are display'd, and their Follies and Blunders, expos'd in the Rehearsal. The whole adorn'd with variety of new cuts. With an alphabetical key and index of persons, places, and other remarkable things in town.
Date: [1723]