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.
- Article
Fake news and the flu
Discover how history shows that fake news could play a deadly role – by generating potentially lethal misinformation during a future pandemic.
- 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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Theriac: An ancient brand?
The name theriac survived for around for two millennia as a pharmaceutical term. But a ‘brand’ name is not always a guarantee of quality.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Poisoning cases
Candy, Hugh Charles Herbert, 1850-1935Date: 1930-1931Reference: MS.6890Part of: Candy, Hugh Charles Herbert (1850-1935)
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Poisoning, carbon monoxide
- Archives and manuscripts
"Poisoning by curare"
Date: 1917Reference: PP/SPI/C.4Part of: Spilsbury, Sir Bernard (1877-1947), Forensic Pathologist
- Books
- Online
Poisoning by belladonna.
Wharton, J.H.Date: [1862]- Archives and manuscripts
Poisoning by aeroplane "dope"
Date: 1914Reference: PP/SPI/C.3Part of: Spilsbury, Sir Bernard (1877-1947), Forensic Pathologist
