Stories
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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.
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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK
Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.
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Would you like to buy a unicorn?
The story behind why somebody tried to sell Henry Wellcome a unicorn head in 1928.
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Hysteria
Mental health and emotional symptoms are common during menopause, but a long history of dismissing sufferers as 'hysterical women', at the mercy of their emotions has made it much harder to discuss these issues and to get support.
Catalogue
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Case and observations in medical jurisprudence. 8, Trial for poisoning with sulphuric acid ; 9, Two trials involving the question of burning before or after death / by Robert Christison.
Christison, Robert, Sir, 1797-1882.Date: 1831- Books
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Reports of trials for murder by poisoning : by prussic acid, strychnia, antimony, arsenic and aconitia : including the trials of Tawell, W. Palmer, Dove, Madeline Smith, Dr. Pritchard, Smethurst, and Dr. Lamson : with chemical introduction and notes on the poisons used / by G. Lathom Browne and C.G. Stewart.
Date: 1883- Books
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Reports of trials for murder by poisoning : by prussic acid, strychnia, antimony, arsenic and aconitia ; including the trials of Tawell, W. Palmer, Dove, Madeline Smith, Dr. Pritchard, Smethurst, and Dr. Lamson, with chemical introduction and notes on the poisons used / by G. Lathom Browne and C.G. Stewart.
Browne, G. Lathom (George Lathom), 1815-1892.Date: 1883- Pictures
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The trial of Dr Edward William Pritchard for murder by poisoning. Wood engraving, 1865.
Date: [1865]Reference: 47162i- Books
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Glasgow poisoning case : unabridged report of the evidence in this extraordinary trial.
Date: 1857