Stories
- Article
Confession as therapy in the Middle Ages
The line between confession and counselling has been blurred for centuries.
- 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.
- Book extract
The castration effect
Discover how testosterone – or the lack of it – affects the male body, from eunuch slaves to castrato singers, and on to hormone reduction in modern prostate cancer treatment.
- Article
The metamorphosis of masturbation
Throughout history, medics and campaigners have tried to stamp out masturbation – but is modern science transforming its reputation?
Catalogue
- Books
Priests of Lucina : the story of obstetrics / Palmer Findley.
Findley, Palmer, 1868-1964.Date: 1939- Books
- Online
The jacobitism perjury and popery of High-Church-Priests
Toland, John, 1670-1722.Date: 1710- Books
- Online
The Priests' confession, a new song, to the time of the vicar of Bray.
Date: 1792?]
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
M0001077: Priests blessing children, from Cabanes: Moeurs intimes du passé (1920-1935)
Date: 12 August 1930Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/10/13Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
- Pictures
- Online
The Alms houses (formerly Priests' College), Cobham, Kent: floor plans. Transfer lithograph by J.R. Jobbins, 1858, after F.T. Dollman.
Dollman, Francis T. (Francis Thomas), 1812-1899.Date: April 1858Reference: 16714i
