Stories
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Butch drag in the builders’ caff
Two men in a café dressed in practical workwear might seem indistinguishable, but closer inspection reveals layers of complex, nuanced identity.
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The house of Joan
The longueurs of hospital stays and enforced inactivity were the spur to Joan’s precise tailoring skills and flamboyant creations, all to the benefit of her fashion-loving sisters.
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Fashion for an unruly body
One weekend, just before an operation to correct her scoliosis, Rosalind Jana stopped trying to hide her body. Read how those two days helped her step into the future.
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Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
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A nude man seated, holding a cornucopia of fruit, and stretching out cloth from his robe with his feet. Engraving by A. Scultori, 15--, after Michelangelo.
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564.Date: 1500-1599Reference: 2815094i- Pictures
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Men and women are buying and selling clothes, hats and shoes at a market. Process print (?) by A.S. Boyd.
Boyd, A. S. (Alexander Stuart), 1854-1930.Reference: 35335i- Ephemera
Dogs. : the public attention is called to the following most efficacious animal medicines, discovered and prepared by Mr. Blaine... / Barclay and Sons ; Messrs. Blaine and Youatt ; T. Boosey.
Date: 1817- Pictures
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Actor Ichikawa Kodanji (?) in a loin-cloth, his body covered with sword scars, is seated at a meal. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1857.
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864.Date: Month 6, 1857Reference: 35824i- Pictures
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Christ is laid into a tomb. Lithograph by M. Fanoli after E.R. Wehnert, 1849.
Wehnert, Edward Henry, 1813-1868.Date: 1 June 1849Reference: 23239i