Stories
- Book extract
My important, ridiculous nose
The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.
- Article
The tradesman who confronted the pestilence
The City of London, 1665. As the Great Plague hits the capital, John New faces a deadly dilemma.
- Book extract
Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
- Article
The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
Catalogue
- Pictures
A rat eating; bodies of dead rats; laying of rat poison: campaign against rats in Sudan. Colour lithograph, 1976.
Date: [1976?]Reference: 979850i- Pictures
A rat pierced by a stake against a white, blue and pink background: campaign against rats in Kuwait. Colour lithograph, 1979.
Date: [1979?]Reference: 979882i- Pictures
Men laying rat poison in a rat's nest; and a pile of dead rats: campaign against rats in Sudan. Colour lithograph, 1976.
Date: 1976Reference: 978276i- Pictures
A rat scuttling over a schematic map of Denmark: campaign against rats in Denmark. Colour lithograph by A. Rasmussen, 1946.
Rasmussen, Aage, 1913-1975.Date: [1946]Reference: 825730i- Pictures
A rat's head; advertising a month of rat extermination in Denmark. Colour lithograph, 194-(?).
Date: [between 1940 and 1949?]Reference: 824412i