Stories
- In pictures
Relieving suburban stress in the 1950s
The ‘perfect’ wife. Her stressed-out husband. And the demands of the idealised suburban life in 1950s America. Fortunately, a new Pfizer tranquilliser could calm things down for everyone.
- 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
Medics, migration and the NHS
In the 1960s the NHS became Britain’s biggest employer. So to help fill all those jobs, the government brought in thousands of workers from abroad.
- Article
The tower in fiction, film and life
The high-rise estates born of postwar idealism soon became symbols of crime and squalor. But after one terrible tragedy, public bodies are being forced to rethink our towers.
Catalogue
- Books
Husband and wife collaboration in medicine and science / William K. Beatty.
Beatty, William K., 1926-2002.Date: 1994- Books
Husband and wife, or, The science of human development through inherited tendencies / by the author of "The parent's guide," etc.
Pendleton, Hester.Date: 1863
- Books
- Online
Husband and wife, or, The science of human development through inherited tendencies / by the author of "The parent's guide," etc.
Pendleton, Hester.Date: 1863- Books
Husband-and-wife physicians / William K. Beatty.
Beatty, William K., 1926-2002.Date: 1994- Archives and manuscripts
M0009286: Husband and wife retiring for the night, fresco in the Civic Museums, San Gimignano
Date: 29 October 1945