Stories
- Article
Reassuring ghosts and haunted houses
Explore the perversely comforting appeal of a ghost in the house.
- Book extract
Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
- Article
Mask, ritual and fertility
Today many of us learn about fertility, conception and pregnancy online. But that wasn’t always the way. Discover how masks and rituals played an important educational role.
- Photo story
My body, my hair
To depilate or not to depilate? Farah Esset and Eden Rickson share a collection of personal pictures and stories that explore the intimate interplay between body hair and identity.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
To thine own self be true : I promise by the help of GOD, for my own sake, and as an example to others, to abstain from the use of Tobacco in every form, until I am at least 21 years of age... / The Primitive Methodist Anti-Cigarette League.
Primitive Methodist Anti-Cigarette League.Date: 1906- Books
Homosexuality in primitive societies / G.R.
Rosen, George, 1910-1977Date: 1940- Books
"Mesmerism" in primitive societies / Erwin H. Ackerknecht.
Ackerknecht, Erwin H. (Erwin Heinz), 1906-1988.Date: 1948- Books
Infectious diseases in primitive societies / Francis L. Black.
Black, F. L. (Francis L.)Date: 1978- Books
Sex and temperament in three primitive societies / by Margaret Mead.
Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978.Date: 1935