Stories
- Book extract
Renaissance women and their killer cosmetics
In this extract from ‘How to be a Renaissance Woman’, Jill Burke delves into a complex world of beauty products, poison and patriarchy – and reveals the impossible contradictions of femininity faced by 16th-century women.
- Article
Political brilliance and the power of self-promotion
How do you convince people you’re exceptional? Meet the ultimate self-styled genius.
Catalogue
- Pictures
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Rome, Italy: a fleet of trucks used in an anti-malaria campaign. Photograph, 1940/1950 (?).
Date: 1940-1950Reference: 564222i- Digital Images
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The Scala Sancte, Rome, Italy
- Archives and manuscripts
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M0000110: Trajan's Column, Rome, Italy
Date: 01 July 1929Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/2/108Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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M0006005: Trevi Fountain, Rome, Italy
Date: 12 January 1939Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/50/6Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
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Church of St. Bartholomew, Isola Tiberina, Rome, Italy: site of the Roman temple of Aesculapius. Photograph by Peter Johnston-Saint, 1930.
Johnston-Saint, Peter, 1886-Date: 1930Reference: 576675i