Stories
- Article
Female masturbation and the perils of pleasure
Dr Kate Lister exposes the brutal 19th-century ‘cures’ for women who indulged in masturbation.
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The law of periodicity for menstruation
Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.
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Tragic artists and their all-consuming passions
Does having a debilitating disease help or hinder creative genius?
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Air of threat
Novelist Chloe Aridjis vividly describes the suffocating atmosphere of Mexico City, as a combination of topography, crowded neighbourhoods, and reckless political diktats create a downward spiral.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Semon, Sir Felix (1849-1921) and Horsley, Sir Victor (1857-1916)
Semon, Sir Felix , 1849-1921Date: Late 19th centuryReference: MS.5276- Archives and manuscripts
William Heberden the elder (1710-1801) and William Heberden the younger (1767-1845), physicians
Heberden, William, 1710-1801Date: late 18th century - early 19th centuryReference: MS.8832- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Recipe Book of Mary Mitchell
Mitchell, MaryDate: late 18th century - mid 19th centuryReference: MS.8165- Pictures
A soldier in 19th-century costume (hussar?) killing a big green fly by spraying it with a gun of Flit insecticide. Colour lithograph, 1930.
Date: [1930]Reference: 589481i- Books
- Online
An essay on a course of liberal education for civil and active life. With plans of lectures on I. The Study of History and general Policy. II. The History of England. III. The Constitution and Laws of England. To which are added, remarks on a code of education, proposed by Dr. Brown, in a late treatise, intitled, Thoughts on civil liberty, &c. By Joseph Priestley, LL.D. Tutor in the Languages and Belles Lettres in the Academy at Warrington.
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]