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The dangers of women’s speech

For centuries, women have been ridiculed and punished for excessive talking, despite the fact that men gossip just as much.

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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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Transitioning and the family album

“It’s really hard to describe to people how you know you’re a man when those ways of describing masculinity to me aren’t true. You need to find your own.”

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Paris Morgue and a public spectacle of death

Known as the “only free theatre in Paris”, La Morgue was a popular place for the public to view cadavers on display.

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  • Norwich Science Gossip Club : session 1890-91.
  • Norwich Science Gossip Club : session 1890-91.
  • The shop of a tooth-drawer, barber, apothecary and blood-letter called "Dickey Gossip", with a song about him. Process print, 1931, after an etching, 1795.
  • The shop of a tooth-drawer, barber, apothecary and blood-letter called "Dickey Gossip", with a song about him. Process print, 1931, after an etching, 1795.
  • Shoes and legs of a woman walking away from an advertising banner with the statement: 'Surgeons test for HIV without consent; Daily Gossip'; advertisement for the Terrence Higgins Trust advice centre. Colour lithograph.
  • Two men wearing dresses in a garden: one is handing the other sticks of chewing gum as an alternative to gossip. Colour process print, 1915.
  • Two men wearing dresses in a garden: one is handing the other sticks of chewing gum as an alternative to gossip. Colour process print, 1915.
  • Shoes and legs of a woman holding a handbag standing next to an advertising banner with the statement: 'People with HIV in poverty row; Daily Gossip'; advertisement for the Terrence Higgins Trust advice centre. Colour lithograph.
  • Shoes and legs of a man wearing a pin-striped suit holding a suitcase standing next to an advertising banner with the statement: 'People with AIDS: Housing crisis; Daily Gossip'; advertisement for the Terrence Higgins Trust advice centre. Colour lithograph.
  • A message in blue lettering in German that 'I don't take condoms because women find them disgusting' and in black lettering 'men gossip'; one of a series of posters from a 'Stop AIDS' campaign by the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz in collaboration with the Office of Federal Health. Colour lithograph.
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