Stories
- In pictures
Mass murder and marvellous medicine
Find out how arsenic has been used for good and ill, to cure and kill, for centuries.
- 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
Colonialism and the origins of skin bleaching
The widespread practice of skin bleaching was heavily influenced by the Western colonisation and slavery of African and South Asian countries. Ngunan Adamu explores this toxic history.
- Article
Tracing the toxic story of tear gas
Investigating tear gas – from factory to Black Lives Matter protest – Imani Jacqueline Brown uncovers a toxic legacy where pollution, violence and racism are intimately entwined.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
World Nuclear Arsenals email factsheet
Date: 1996Reference: SA/MED/H/6/7/13Part of: Medact- Books
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A treatise on ancient armour and weapons, illustrated by plates taken from the original armour in the Tower of London, and other arsenals, museums, and cabinets. By Francis Grose, Esq; F. A. S.
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791.Date: 1785 MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
Care work : dreaming disability justice / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.
Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi, 1975-Date: [2018]- Books
Out/lines : underground gay graphics from before Stonewall / compiled and with an introduction by Thomas Waugh.
Waugh, Thomas, 1948-Date: [2002]- Books
The future is disabled : prophecies, love notes, and mourning songs / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.
Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi, 1975-Date: [2022]