Stories
- Photo story
My body, my hair
To depilate or not to depilate? Farah Esset and Eden Rickson share a collection of personal pictures and stories that explore the intimate interplay between body hair and identity.
- Article
Witches
Many of the women persecuted as witches in the 16th-century “witch craze” were over 50 and exhibited signs of menopause. Helen Foster suggests that the stigma of the wicked witch still affects older women and how they deal with menopause.
- Book extract
Renaissance women and their killer cosmetics
In this extract from ‘How to be a Renaissance Woman’, Jill Burke delves into a complex world of beauty products, poison and patriarchy – and reveals the impossible contradictions of femininity faced by 16th-century women.
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The indelible harm caused by conversion therapy
With first-hand evidence from two powerful testimonies, neurologist Jules Montague explores the destructive history of conversion therapy, a punitive treatment designed to ‘cure’ people of homosexuality.
Catalogue
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The exact measurement of the electric current, and other practical points in the destruction of hair by electrolysis : with especial reference to the use of the absolute galvanometer / by Morton Prince.
Prince, Morton, 1854-1929.Date: 1886- Archives and manuscripts
First series: - Precocious development, sexual characters, hypernephromata, hypernephromata and so-called 'Gravitz' tumours, etc
Date: 1905-1943Reference: PP/FPW/B.261/1Part of: Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)- Digital Images
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Elephant's hair. Slide by Topping - x165 - lamp. Beck Intensity and ground glass and wratten 45a filter. Condenser - Leitz 1.4 NA. Camera ext. 215 mm. Plate - Kodak Pan. Exp. 5.75m. Fine grain 1D11. Talen F.C. Griggs 29.9.48 op.lat. Top lens removed. OBJ. Watson Holes 12mm. 0.65 N.n. used 182 mm. thickcore Eyepiece x 14.
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A barber is asked to shave a man who has no facial hair. Etching by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).
Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882.Date: 1844Reference: 30634i- Videos
Bleach, nip and tuck: the white beauty myth. Part 1, The body.
Date: 2009