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The ‘undesirable epileptic’

Abused in her marriage for being 'a sick woman', Aparna Nair looked to history to make sense of the response to her epilepsy. She discovered how centuries of fear and discrimination were often endorsed by science and legislation.

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Fraught fertility and making royal babies

Producing a male heir has been seen for centuries as a queen’s most important role. Here Estelle Paranque explores the lives of four queens whose route to royal motherhood was far from smooth.

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Relieving suburban stress in the 1950s

The ‘perfect’ wife. Her stressed-out husband. And the demands of the idealised suburban life in 1950s America. Fortunately, a new Pfizer tranquilliser could calm things down for everyone.

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Caring for our Disabled daughter in lockdown

Jane Holmes talks about the challenges of caring for her Disabled daughter while working and trying to stay safe during the pandemic.

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  • Husbands bringing their ugly wives to a windmill, to be transformed into beautiful ones. Engraving, ca 1650.
  • Husbands bringing their ugly wives to a windmill, to be transformed into beautiful ones. Engraving, ca 1650.
  • The bottle, by George Cruikshank; 'The husbands in a state of furious drunkeness, kills his wife'
  • Lady Strachan and Lady Warwick making love in a park, while their husbands look on with disapproval. Coloured etching, ca. 1820.
  • Two wives of Arab sailors, one with a child, about to join their husbands on board Portuguese ships. Etching by Johannes á Doetechum after Linschoten.
  • A man is selling horns from his basket, as emblems of cuckoldry: husbands reply that they will not buy any because they already have plenty. Engraving by Frs. Hubert after Le Nain (?).
  • Two books of physick: viz. I. Medicaments for poor; or, physick for the common people .... / First written in Latin by ... John Prevotius .... Translated into English, and somthing [sic] added, by Nich. Culpeper .... II. Health for the rich and poor, by diet without physick. By Nich. Culpeper .... Also Culpepers Ghost [by Peter Cole?]. [Before which prefixed, Mris. Culpepers Epistle in vindication of her husbands reputation].
  • Sir George Husband Baird Macleod. Photograph.
  • Dedication to Mary Rebecca Hobson from her husband.
  • Savitri pleading with Yama for her husband's life. Chromolithograph.
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