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The shocking ‘treatment’ to make lesbians straight
Being a lesbian has never been a crime in the UK, but 50 years ago, some psychologists experimented with treatments to try to ‘cure’ women of their orientation. Find out what this involved.
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Charged bodies
Electrified humans brought education and performance together with a spark in the 18th century.
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Eels and feels
For Georgian Londoners, the allure of electric animals was both intellectual and sensual.
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The current that kills
In the 19th century, electricity held life in the balance, with the power to execute – or reanimate.
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Electricity: several electrical machines in use, with a man receiving an electric shock in the background. Engraving, [18th century], by B. Cole.
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A hand receiving an electric shock. Watercolour by David Thomas Meredith, 1976.
Meredith, David Thomas, active approximately 1975-1989.Date: 23.3.76 [23 March 1976]Reference: 3005826iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
A man experiencing mild electric shock caused by his fiddling with a screwdriver in the back of television set. Colour lithograph for the Vereinigung der Metall-Berufsgenossenschaften, 2002.
Vereinigung der Metall-Berufsgenossenschaften.Date: [2002]Reference: 771813i- Pictures
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Artificial respiration of a man who has been rescued from drowning, electric shock or carbon monoxide poisoning. Colour lithograph by Jacob Jansma, 194-.
Jansma, Jacob.Date: [between 1940 and 1949?]Reference: 663440i- Books
The effect of repetition on reactions to electric shock : with special reference to the menstrual cycle / by John P. and Georgene H. Seward.
Seward, John P., 1905-1985.Date: 1934