Stories
- 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.
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The significance of safe spaces as refuges from racism
Beer writer David Jesudason discusses the impact racism has had on his mental health, and the consolation offered by pubs that feel truly safe.
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When monarchs healed the sick
Our current Queen fortunately doesn’t have to spend hours laying hands on the sick to cure them. But it was a different story for monarchs of the early modern era, whose touch was a sought-after treatment for scrofula.
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Female masturbation and the perils of pleasure
Dr Kate Lister exposes the brutal 19th-century ‘cures’ for women who indulged in masturbation.
Catalogue
- Books
Brown & Polson's summer dishes.
Brown & Polson.Date: [Between 1900 and 1907?]- Books
Brown & Polson's corn flour : raspberry, strawberry, lemon, vanilla flavoured! : blancmanges and pudding sauces / Brown & Polson, Ltd.
Date: [between 1930 and 1939?]- Ephemera
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Brown & Polson flavoured cornflour for blancmange : 5 flavours : banana, raspberry, caramel, strawberry, pineapple / Brown & Polson Ltd.
Brown & Polson.Date: [between 1950 and 1959?]- Ephemera
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Brown & Polson Ltd. Cookery Club, 43-44 Shoe Lane, London E.C.4 : president, Mrs. Jean Scott, secretary, Miss L.K. Pike.
Brown & Polson Cookery Club.Date: [Between 1933 and 1938]- Digital Images
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Brown long-eared bat, x-ray.
Thorn, Chris.Date: 2013