Stories
- Article
Sex in graphic novels
Sex and sexuality have long been explored in the history of the graphic novel.
- Article
History of condoms from animal to rubber
Come on a journey from the first recorded condoms in the 16th century to the modern female condoms in the 1990s – and everything in between.
- Article
Heating up and drying out
Menopause doesn’t have to signify old age, but when your body feels like it’s letting you down, it’s hard not to believe that your useful life may be over.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
Catalogue
- Books
The face of medicine : visualising medical masculinities in late nineteenth-century Paris / Mary Hunter.
Hunter, Mary, ProfessorDate: 2016- Books
The limits of the human : fictions of anomaly, race, and gender in the long eighteenth century / Felicity A. Nussbaum.
Nussbaum, Felicity.Date: 2003- Pictures
A fearful woman (Britannia) is encouraged by three British politicians to resist the invading fleet of France. Coloured etching by J. Gillray after J. Sneyd, 1803.
Sneyd, John.Date: 14 March 1803Reference: 12191i