Stories
- Photo story
Beautiful bedding and how to die well
When you are unwell, your bed can be both a refuge and a prison. Discover how artist Poppy Nash created a bed-centred artwork inspired by her own chronic illness and depictions of ill health from history.
- In pictures
The beautiful language of bookplates
Don’t judge a book only by its cover. Take a look inside, where decorative bookplates reveal stories that cross continents and centuries.
- Article
Bubbles of history
Since the 1960s, scientists have been able to study the air from past centuries by analysing particles in Arctic ice samples. But as the polar ice melts, the future of this research is changing.
- Article
A brief history of tattoos
The earliest evidence of tattoo art dates from 5000 BC, and the practice continues to hold meaning for many cultures around the world.
Catalogue
- Student dissertations
"Fashion manmade beauty ? - Why, sir, cobble you !" / Cliona Kirwan.
Kirwan, Cliona.Date: 1991- Books
Consumptive chic : a history of beauty, fashion, and disease / Carolyn A. Day.
Day, CarolynDate: [2017]- Books
How to be a Renaissance woman : the untold history of beauty & female creativity / Jill Burke.
Burke, Jill, 1971-Date: 2023- Books
Decolonising my body : a radical exploration of rituals and beauty / Afua Hirsch.
Hirsch, AfuaDate: 2023- Ephemera
Young and beautiful : advertising & packaging beauty products 1890-1990 : a small exhibition in the display cases at the far end of the Modern Medicine reading room in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine : 1 June - 25 September / Stephen Lowther.
Lowther, Stephen, 1955-Date: [1999]