Stories
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Witches
Many of the women persecuted as witches in the 16th-century “witch craze” were over 50 and exhibited signs of menopause. Helen Foster suggests that the stigma of the wicked witch still affects older women and how they deal with menopause.
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Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
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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.
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The making of ‘Quacks’
How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
English recipe book, later 17th century
Date: late 17th century - late 18th centuryReference: MS.9179- Books
A history of disability in England : from the medieval period to the present day / Simon Jarrett.
Jarrett, SimonDate: 2023- Books
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A catalogue of all the entire and well-chosen library of the late Mrs. Letitia Wiggett, deceased, At her late Dwelling-House, in St. George's Colgate, Norwich: which will be sold by auction, by Edward Crane, on Wednesday the 28th inst. and two following days: Consisting of an Air Pump, Mathematical, Philosophical, and other Instruments. - Amongst the books are Picart's Religious Ceremonies, 6 vol. Spence's Polymetis, best Edition-Rapin and Continuation, 5 vol. - Montfaucon's Antiquities and Supplement, 7 vol. - Ancient and Modern Universal History, 27 vol. - Hill's Natural History of Fossils-Hook's Micographia, best Edition-Pennant's British Zoology, Elegant-Pitt's Atlas, 4 vol. Catalogues may be had at the Auctioneer's Upholstery Warehouse, White-Lion-Lane, Norwich, at 3d. each, which will be returned to every purchaser to the amount of five shillings. The whole to be viewed on Tuesday next from Eleven O'Clock in the Forenoon 'till Three in the Afternoon. The Sale begins each Morning precisely at Half past Ten.
Crane, Edward, active 18th century.Date: 1790?]
- Pictures
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A man suffering from attack by blue devils; representing depression or mental illness. Coloured etching after R. Newton, 1795.
Newton, Richard, 1777-1798.Reference: 11867i- Books
Life and death in Georgian England : catalogue of an exhibition held in the Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, 2 April - 23 May 1997 / [compiled by Dorothea Rowse].
Rowse, Dorothea.Date: [1995?]