Stories
- Article
Shakespeare’s cholerics were the real drama queens
In Shakespeare’s times, people’s personalities were categorised by four temperaments. The choleric temperament was hot-tempered and active.
- In pictures
From female impersonation to drag
How did drag develop from light-hearted female impersonation to a world-dominating art form?
- In pictures
How chloroform shaped the murder mystery
Find out how a sweet-smelling liquid anaesthetic captured the public’s imagination and changed pop culture for ever.
- In pictures
Fraught fertility and making royal babies
Producing a male heir has been seen for centuries as a queen’s most important role. Here Estelle Paranque explores the lives of four queens whose route to royal motherhood was far from smooth.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Queens Medical Magazine
Date: 1961Reference: PP/RJH/B.7Part of: Hetherington, Robert J
- Pictures
- Online
Queens hospital, Birmingham. Etching.
Reference: 15579i- Archives and manuscripts
Queens Award for Export Achievement 1991
Date: 1991Reference: WF/M/H/02/05/03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd
- Pictures
- Online
Queens flower: flowering stem. Watercolour.
Reference: 21981i- Books
Queens in nursing history : a memento of coronation year / by Isabel Macdonald.
Macdonald, Isabel.Date: 1953
