Stories
- In pictures
Southern Italy’s centuries-long dancing mania
How the symptom of a terrifying sickness became a lively folk dance in southern Italy.
- 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
Political brilliance and the power of self-promotion
How do you convince people you’re exceptional? Meet the ultimate self-styled genius.
- Article
Sex in graphic novels
Sex and sexuality have long been explored in the history of the graphic novel.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Italy correspondence
Date: 1980-1991Reference: SA/ILE/G/2/24/1Part of: Archive of the International League Against Epilepsy
- Pictures
- Online
Italy (?): a volcano erupting in the background; boats and sailors in the foreground. Gouache painting, ca. 1830.
Date: 1830Reference: 575685i- Archives and manuscripts
Italy 1990: Ramazzini Award 1990
Date: 1990Reference: PP/AMS/J.5/15/1Part of: Alice Stewart (1906-2002)- Archives and manuscripts
Italy Collegium Ramazzini, Carpi, 29-30 Oct 1994
Date: 1994-1995Reference: PP/AMS/J.5/15/3Part of: Alice Stewart (1906-2002)- Archives and manuscripts
Italy Scrapbook
Date: 1975Reference: PP/MAP/A/1/1Part of: Michele Angelo Petrone (1963-2007): archives
