Stories
- Article
Our endless quest for eternal youth
From poisonous 16th-century cosmetics to the latest “vampire facelift”, discover the fashions in unsavoury methods for improving our appearance.
- 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.
- Article
Colonialism and the origins of skin bleaching
The widespread practice of skin bleaching was heavily influenced by the Western colonisation and slavery of African and South Asian countries. Ngunan Adamu explores this toxic history.
- Article
Hamlet, the melancholic Prince of Denmark
Hamlet clearly demonstrates an excess of black bile and is arguably the most famous literary melancholic.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Essay "Lead Poisoning"
Date: Mid 20th CenturyReference: HALDANE/2/1/3/78Part of: Haldane Papers- Books
Lead poisoning / [Dr. Herbert].
Herbert, Dr., active 1890.Date: 1890- Books
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Lead poisoning in the smelting and refining of lead.
Hamilton, Alice, 1869-1970.Date: 1914- Books
Lead poisoning / by Abraham Cantarow and Max Trumper.
Cantarow, Abraham, 1901-1979.Date: 1944- Archives and manuscripts
Lead poisoning
Date: 1843Reference: MS.7374/142Part of: Pariset, Étienne (1770-1847)