Stories
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Remote romance and the common cold
Getting creatively romantic due to a virus sounds all too contemporary, but our archives show what socially distanced seduction looked like seven decades ago.
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The current that kills
In the 19th century, electricity held life in the balance, with the power to execute – or reanimate.
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Would you like to buy a unicorn?
The story behind why somebody tried to sell Henry Wellcome a unicorn head in 1928.
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How Mills & Boon made medicine romantic
‘Doctor-nurse’ romances are a hugely popular trope. Agnes Arnold-Forster explores their history and surprisingly nuanced depictions of womanhood, hospitals and the welfare state.
Catalogue
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Romance philology
Date: 1947-- Books
Romance of medicine.
Date: 1939- Books
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Romance of the insect world / by L. N. Badenoch.
Badenoch, L. N.Date: 1893- Archives and manuscripts
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"Romance & Contraception", a draft article for Pat Lamburn IPC - not published
Date: 1971Reference: SA/FPA/CB/10/3Part of: Family Planning Association- Books
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Romance and the "yellow peril" : race, sex, and discursive strategies in Hollywood fiction / Gina Marchetti.
Marchetti, GinaDate: [1993], ©1993