Stories
- Photo story
How wigs help children handle hair loss
For young people who lose their hair during cancer treatment, a wig can make them feel normal again. Carmel King photographs some of the processes and people involved with a charity providing beautiful human-hair wigs for kids.
- Article
The work of wet-nursing
Many of us know that in the past, babies were sometimes nourished by wet-nurses. But, perhaps surprisingly, the practice continues today – and the milk recipients are not only babies.
- Interview
Inside the mind of George Vasey, co-curator of Misbehaving Bodies
Discover how curator George Vasey honoured the approaches of Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, who mischievously subvert clichés around illness and death.
- Article
Lovesickness and ‘The Love Thief’
An 11th-century poem of love, lust and possibly gruesome death still resonates today.
Catalogue
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Princesses Powder.
Date: [1695]- Archives and manuscripts
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Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute - Development, Differentiation and Disease Symposium - 2005 Princesses' Lecturer
Date: 2005Reference: SB/1/2/1019Part of: Sydney Brenner Collection
- Ephemera
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Royal Aquarium : Cetewayo's daughters : Farinis Zulu Princesses : Unolala, Adza Mvoula and her baby Umgane, Unomadloza.
Date: [1880?]- Archives and manuscripts
Queen Elizabeth and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, with Redmond Smith at performance of 'Mikado', by St Mary's Hospital Students and Nurses Society
Date: Nov-1945Reference: PP/CMW/P.36Part of: Lord Moran (Charles McMoran Wilson) (1882-1977): archives- Books
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The adventures of the six Princesses of Babylon, in their travels to the temple of virtue: an allegory. Dedicated, by permission, to Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary.
Peacock, Lucy, active 1785-1816.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]