Stories
- Article
Why we no longer keep our dead at home
Today in the UK we rarely sit with, touch, or perhaps even see our loved ones after they’ve died. Past practices were very different and, Claire Cock-Starkey argues, were more helpful for those grieving.
- In pictures
Advice for (medieval) old age
Whether it was an abstemious, pious preparation for death or drinking gold in the quest for eternal life, those seeking advice on what best to do in their later years were never short of inspiration.
- Article
Keeping death close
Scattering her father’s ashes, Lauren Entwistle found herself longing for something physical that proved he once was a living, breathing person. Here she reflects on the objects that help us to grieve and remember.
- Book extract
Autism and the ache of loneliness
Explore the thoughts of an autistic loneliness researcher in this quietly expressive extract from Daniel Tammet’s book ‘Nine Minds: Inner Lives on the Spectrum’.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
Parex toilet preparations : Meritor rubber cushion hair brush / Parex ; Meritor.
Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]- Ephemera
Your children's hair may be kept luxuriant, healthy and clean, by the regular use of Parker's Nursery Hair Lotion : this preparation is invaluable for destroying nits and parasites so frequent in children's hair ... / Alfred Parker.
Parker, Alfred.Date: [between 1900 and 1909?]- Books
Pharmaceutical formulas volume II : (P. F. vol. II) formulas for adhesives, beverages, cleaning materials, confectionery, cosmetics, culinary and household requisites, dental preparations, horticultural products, lacquers and varnishes, pastilles and lozenges, perfumery, pesticides, photographic requisites, polishes, products for the hair, toilet preparations, veterinary products, writing materials, etc.
Date: 1956- Books
- Online
Pharmaceutical formulas : a book of useful recipes for the drug trade comprising formulas for toilet preparations and specialities, preparations for the hair, dentifrices, perfumes, household and culinary requisites, beverages, antiseptics and disinfectants, inks, varnishes, confectionary, medicinal compounds, and many other preparations related to the art of pharmacy collated chiefly from The chemist and druggist and The chemists' and druggists' diaries / with annotations by Peter MacEwan.
Date: 1902- Books
- Online
Pharmaceutical formulas : a book of useful recipes for the drug trade, comprising formulas for toilet preparations and specialties and preparations for the hair, dentrifices, perfumes, household and culinary requisites, beverages, antiseptics and disinfectants, inks, varnishes, confectionery, medicinal compounds, and many other preparations related to the art of pharmacy collated chiefly from The chemist and druggist and The chemists' and druggists' diaries / with annotations by Peter MacEwan.
Date: 1898