Stories
- Article
The chymist’s trade card
An 18th-century trade card reveals far more than its owner may have intended.
- Book extract
A history of sex for sale
Kate Lister’s cultural history of the sex trade puts sex workers centre stage. In this extract, she argues why the way we write, think and talk about sex work matters.
- Article
Fantastic beasts and unnatural history
Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.
- 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
- Books
- Online
The middle ground : Indians, empires, and republics in the Great Lakes region, 1650-1815 / Richard White.
White, Richard, 1947-Date: 2011- Books
Coffee houses and book clubs in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Northumberland / John C. Day.
Day, J. C.Date: [1995], ©1995- Books
Fairs, markets and the itinerant book trade / edited by Robin Myers, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote.
Date: 2007- Books
Taste, trade and technology : the development of the international meat industry since 1840 / Richard Perren.
Perren, Richard.Date: [2006], ©2006- Books
The London book trade : topographies of print in the metropolis from the sixteenth century / edited by Robin Myers, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote.
Date: 2003