Stories
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The Ladies of Llangollen
As we celebrate LGBT History Month, Sarah Bentley explores the relationship between the two 18th-century women known as the Ladies of Llangollen.
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The law of periodicity for menstruation
Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.
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Enduring taboos and the future of skin bleaching
Many condemn skin bleaching in public while secretly lightening their own complexions. To break away from these taboos, we need honest information and open conversation.
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Befriending heavy breathers
Read the fascinating story behind the rare manual that helped volunteers on one of Britain’s first free telephone helplines to deal with masturbating callers.
Catalogue
- Books
Retired women / [National Dairy Council].
Date: 1992]- Archives and manuscripts
Copy of NBTF scheme for retired midwives to 'sit in' with women in labour
Date: Sep 1959-May 1960Reference: SA/NBT/Q.3/1Part of: National Birthday Trust Fund- Books
A woman's guide to good health after 50 / Marie Feltin, M.D.; with the editorial assistance of Joyce G. Moss and Barbara B. Whitesides.
Feltin, Marie, 1944-Date: [1987]- Books
Not too old at sixty / the National Corporation for the Care of Old People.
Date: 1963- Videos
Black nurses : the women who saved the NHS.
Date: 2016