Stories
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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.
- 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.
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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.
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Our endless quest for eternal youth
From poisonous 16th-century cosmetics to the latest “vampire facelift”, discover the fashions in unsavoury methods for improving our appearance.
Catalogue
- Books
Mel B toxicity in human trypanosomiasis in the Gboko endemic area of Nigeria / B.A. Aiyedun and A.A. Amodu.
Aiyedun, B. A.Date: 1976- Videos
New hidden killers. The Victorian home.
Date: 2013- Books
Understanding new, resurgent, and resistant diseases : how man and globalization create and spread illness / Kurt Link.
Link, Kurt, 1937-Date: 2007- Archives and manuscripts
Monthly Memoranda (points for propaganda)
Date: 1919-1921Reference: WF/M/GB/30/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Videos
Pain, pus and poison.
Date: 2013