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Remote romance and the common cold
Getting creatively romantic due to a virus sounds all too contemporary, but our archives show what socially distanced seduction looked like seven decades ago.
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The castration effect
Discover how testosterone – or the lack of it – affects the male body, from eunuch slaves to castrato singers, and on to hormone reduction in modern prostate cancer treatment.
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A man is selling song sheets at a fair; a crowd has gathered to watch a Punch and Judy show. Coloured wood engraving.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 32474i- Pictures
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A man with a stick selling song-sheets is accompanied by a woman moving with the aid of two crutches. Coloured etching by Lapbame, 1820.
Lapbame.Date: 1820Reference: 44064i- Digital Images
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Song sheet with illustration: 'The quack doctor'.
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Song-sheet cover: 'Medicine Jack'.
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Six soldiers and a captain on a song sheet for children. Colour line block with letterpress after T. Prentis and E. Farjeon.
Farjeon, Eleanor, 1881-1965.Date: [between 1920 and 1926?]Reference: 35658iPart of: Nursery sheet