Stories
- Article
Uncovering experiences of dementia
Focusing on three 19th-century women’s case notes, Millie van der Byl Williams explores how our definition of dementia has changed.
- Article
Dial ‘S’ for sex
In pre-internet days, phone boxes became a patchwork of ‘tart cards’ offering sexual services. Find out about the clandestine world they hint at.
- Article
Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
Catalogue
- Books
Zur Geschichte der subkutanen Injektionen und Injektabilia in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts mit besonderer Berücksichti-gung der Quecksilbertherapie / von Gottfried Schramm.
Schramm, Gottfried, 1927-Date: 1987- Pictures
A painting of African men being seduced by a female prostitute and being infected with AIDS; advertising an exhibition "Sexuality and death. AIDS in contemporary African art". Colour lithograph, 2003.
Date: 2003Reference: 679209i- Books
Splendeurs et misères : images de la prostitution (1850-1910).
Date: 2015- Pictures
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A man in a white suit smoking by the sea. Colour process print after P.V. Bradshaw, 1908.
Bradshaw, Percy V. (Percy Venner)Date: [1908?]Reference: 2059355iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Ephemera
19 year old art student : gives solo exhibition for your pleasure.
Date: [1992]