Stories
- Comic
Targeted adverts
‘Black Mirror’ writers WISH they came up with this concept.
- In pictures
The post-war adverts that tried to cure lonely women
Isolated housewives, lonely female office workers: while the 1950s saw the birth of a general concern about them, manufacturers also spotted an opportunity. Find out how advertising promised that products could salve solitude.
- Article
The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
- Article
Blood money: Taking periods out of poverty
Periods are not a wound that needs to heal, nor is the blood a sign of injury. So why are we still so repelled by them?
Catalogue
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Advert for Colgate Sensitive toothpaste in Kenya. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
Date: [2000?]Reference: 756957i
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Advert for fabric plasters in Kenya. Colour lithograph by RAA Ltd., ca. 2000.
Date: [2000?]Reference: 766589i- Pictures
Advert for a free medical camp in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Texas Cancer Centre, ca. 2000.
Date: [2000?]Reference: 766587i- Books
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Advertence dv prince d'Oranges avx svbiets et inhabitans dv Pais Bas
William Prince of Orange I 1533-1584Date: 1568- Books
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Advertisement : There is lately found out at Norwood in the Parish of Croydod, in the country of Surry, at Biggen Farm, at Richard Jacksons, an excellent purging water.
Date: [1675?]
