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Historical ways to hang on to your hair

Could upper-class hair-hygiene regimes cause baldness, or does hair health depend on a blast of deadly mercury? Maisie Jenkins scours the archives for historic follicle care.

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Finding consolation in social isolation

Feeling isolated and anxious during the lockdowns of the last year, Tanya Perdikou found solace in reconnecting to her past and reaching out to neighbours in the present.

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Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies

Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.

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Keeping death close

Scattering her father’s ashes, Lauren Entwistle found herself longing for something physical that proved he once was a living, breathing person. Here she reflects on the objects that help us to grieve and remember.

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  • John Marshall. Photograph by Lock & Whitfield.
  • Francis Mason. Photograph by Lock & Whitfield.
  • John Tyndall. Photograph by Lock & Whitfield.
  • Henry Fawcett. Photograph by Lock & Whitfield.
  • Marcus Stone. Photograph by Lock & Whitfield.
  • John Tyndall. Photograph by Lock & Whitfield.
  • Helen Webb. Photograph by Lock & Whitfield.
  • Goldwin Smith. Photograph by Lock & Whitfield.
  • Sir Richard Owen. Photograph by Lock & Whitfield.
  • Sir Edward Frankland. Photograph by Lock & Whitfield.
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