Stories
- Article
How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
- In pictures
Historical ways to hang on to your hair
Could upper-class hair-hygiene regimes cause baldness, or does hair health depend on a blast of deadly mercury? Maisie Jenkins scours the archives for historic follicle care.
- Article
Dial ‘S’ for sex
In pre-internet days, phone boxes became a patchwork of ‘tart cards’ offering sexual services. Find out about the clandestine world they hint at.
- 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.
Catalogue
- Books
Advertising of vitamin products / The Advertising Association.
Date: 1962- Archives and manuscripts
Advertising copy, proofs and publications: outsize material
Date: c.1815-1889Reference: MS.7181/3Part of: Dr. Joshua Webster's English Diet Drink- Archives and manuscripts
Advertising copy, proofs and publications: standard-size material
Date: c.1815-1889Reference: MS.7181/1-2, 4-21, 22-31Part of: Dr. Joshua Webster's English Diet Drink- Archives and manuscripts
Advertising: Metra Report
Date: 1979-1980Reference: SA/ASH/K/1/9Part of: Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)- Archives and manuscripts
Advertising copy, proofs and publications
Date: c.1815-1889Reference: MS.7181Part of: Dr. Joshua Webster's English Diet Drink