Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events

Stories

  • 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

Indian botanicals and heritage wars

Colonial botanical texts, as astonishingly beautiful as they are, may cast very dark shadows.

  • Article

When kids are offered free cosmetic surgery

When they were a child, Jasmine Owens’ dentist offered to break their jaw – for free. It would make them look better, he said. Read on to find out whether or not they agreed.

  • Article

Keeping death close

Scattering her father’s ashes, Lauren Entwistle found herself longing for something physical that proved he once was a living, breathing person. Here she reflects on the objects that help us to grieve and remember.

All stories (45)

Images

  • The book of Beauty Culture, inside cover and
  • The book of beauty culture, 1914.
  • The new beauty-culture : an absolutely new way of beautifying the complexion... Pond's Extract Soap / Armour & Company.
  • Beauty and health : how to attain and preserve them / by Cuthbert Andrews.
  • The Daily Mirror beauty book / by an eminent M.D.
  • A fashionable young lady asking a pharmacist about the durability of the cosmetics he sells. Coloured pencil drawing by L. Wood, 1909.
  • A fashionable young lady asking a pharmacist about the durability of the cosmetics he sells. Coloured pencil drawing by L. Wood, 1909.
  • The Delineator. Vol.LXVII, no.5, May 1906 : [cover only] / The Butterick Publishing Co. (Ltd.).
  • The Delineator. Vol.LXVII, no.5, May 1906 : [cover only] / The Butterick Publishing Co. (Ltd.).
  • The Delineator. Vol.LXVII, no.5, May 1906 : [cover only] / The Butterick Publishing Co. (Ltd.).
All images (25)

Catalogue

All works (344)

Events

  • Discussion

Dangerous Liaisons

Viewing Room
Past

Part of Library Insights

All events (1)