Stories
- Article
Butch drag in the builders’ caff
Two men in a café dressed in practical workwear might seem indistinguishable, but closer inspection reveals layers of complex, nuanced identity.
- Article
Father of the house
Stuart Evers thought he’d shaken off his family’s rigid definition of masculinity. But when he became a dad, those buried patriarchal ideas made an unexpected return.
- Photo story
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.”
- Article
The house of Joan
The longueurs of hospital stays and enforced inactivity were the spur to Joan’s precise tailoring skills and flamboyant creations, all to the benefit of her fashion-loving sisters.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
M0002714: Contrasts in African and Asian traditional medical clothing
Date: 04 January 1932Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/22/92Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
Address and Obligant Book Men
Date: 1916-1923Reference: DGH1/5/27/9Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
Address and Obligant Book Men
Date: c.1923-1937Reference: DGH1/5/27/11Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Ephemera
All in search of health should wear Harness' electropathic belt : for suffering men & women : for nervous exhaustion, neuralgia, rheumatism, indigestion, sleeplessness, ladies ailments &c. it imparts new life and vigour / The Medical Battery Co., Ltd.
Date: [1893?]- Ephemera
Electricity in failing health : men and women of all ages, and in all stations of life should stop taking poisonous medicines and drugs, and simply wear Dr. Carter Moffat's energizing feather-weight electric body belt / Dr. Carter Moffat.
Moffat, Carter.Date: [1891?]