Stories
- Article
Our endless quest for eternal youth
From poisonous 16th-century cosmetics to the latest “vampire facelift”, discover the fashions in unsavoury methods for improving our appearance.
- Article
Fake news and the flu
Discover how history shows that fake news could play a deadly role – by generating potentially lethal misinformation during a future pandemic.
- 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
Theriac: An ancient brand?
The name theriac survived for around for two millennia as a pharmaceutical term. But a ‘brand’ name is not always a guarantee of quality.
Catalogue
- Books
Poisoned lives : English poisoners and their victims / Katherine Watson.
Watson, Katherine (Katherine Denise)Date: 2004
- Books
- Online
Remarkable Scottish poisoners. : (Causes célèbres.) : Dr. E. Pritchard, the Glasgow poisoner.
Date: [1865?]- Books
Poisons and poisoners : with historical accounts of some famous mysteries in ancient and modern times / by C.J.S. Thompson.
Thompson, C. J. S. (Charles John Samuel), 1862-1943.Date: [1931]- Ephemera
Microbes & food : food poisoners / Society of General Microbiology.
Date: 2000- Books
Infamous Victorians: Palmer and Lamson : two notorious poisoners / [Giles St. Aubyn].
St. Aubyn, Giles.Date: 1971
