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The post-war adverts that tried to cure lonely women

Isolated housewives, lonely female office workers: while the 1950s saw the birth of a general concern about them, manufacturers also spotted an opportunity. Find out how advertising promised that products could salve solitude.

  • In pictures

Quaranzines

Researcher and zine-maker Lea Cooper explores pandemic zines made by people who were often familiar with “staying at home” because of disability or chronic illness.

  • In pictures

Neuroqueering comics

Researcher and zine-maker Lea Cooper considers how comic-zines use the distinctive qualities of zines to explore some of the complex connections between memory, autobiography, disability, neurodivergence and queer identity.

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  • Robert Bransby Cooper. Lithograph.
  • Caricature of B.B. Cooper, dissecting; Barney the Cooper . . Performing his last operation'
  • Cooper's Sinapine Tissue (mustard leaflets).
  • Cooper's Sinapine Tissue (mustard leaflets).
  • Cooper's Sinapine Tissue (mustard leaflets).
  • Portrait of Sir Astley Cooper
  • Portrait of Sir Astley Cooper
  • Portrait of Sir Astley Cooper
  • Portrait of Sir Astley Cooper
  • Portrait of Sir Astley Cooper
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