Stories
- Article
The house of Joan
The longueurs of hospital stays and enforced inactivity were the spur to Joan’s precise tailoring skills and flamboyant creations, all to the benefit of her fashion-loving sisters.
- In pictures
Testimonies of birth
A 1980s film about childbirth explores how the experience felt for the women featured and offers a glimpse into the big birthing trends of the day.
- 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
The meanings of hurt
In the early modern period, gruesome incidents of self-castration and other types of self-injury garnished the literature of the time. Alanna Skuse explores the messages these wounds conveyed.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Wives' Fellowship
Date: 1937-1938Reference: SA/EUG/G.9Part of: Eugenics Society- Books
Wives and daughters / Elizabeth Gaskell.
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865.Date: 1996- Books
Wives who went to college / by Judith Hubback.
Hubback, Judith.Date: [1957]- Books
- Online
Wives & mothers in Victorian industry / by Margfaret Hewitt.
Hewitt, Margaret, 1928-1991.Date: [1958], ©1958- Books
Wives and midwives : childbirth and nutrition in rural Malaysia / Carol Laderman.
Laderman, Carol.Date: [1983], ©1983