Stories
- 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.
- In pictures
Hookah smoking in colonial Calcutta
Hookah smoking began in the royal courts of Mughal India, and like many other local customs, it was readily adopted by British colonials in the 18th century as a symbol of wealth and status.
- Article
The doctor who challenged the unicorn myth
Our era of fake news and medical misinformation is nothing new. Estelle Paranque relays the thrusts and parries of a 440-year-old row over a magical cure-all, the unicorn horn.
- Article
When monarchs healed the sick
Our current Queen fortunately doesn’t have to spend hours laying hands on the sick to cure them. But it was a different story for monarchs of the early modern era, whose touch was a sought-after treatment for scrofula.
Catalogue
- Books
Royal Academy of Arts bicentenary exhibition, 1768-1968 : catalogue : 14 December 1968- 2 March 1969.
Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)Date: 1968
- Ephemera
- Online
Royal Aquarium : Adonis, the African midgit on view with Wielands Realities.
Date: [1885?]- Books
Royal Academy pictures : illustrating the ... exhibition of the Royal Academy. Being the Royal Academy supplement[s] of the Magazine of Art.
Date: 1890-1905- Journals
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Royal Academy Pictures
- Books
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Royal Albert Asylum for the education and training of idiots & imbeciles belonging to Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland : eighth annual report.
Royal Albert Asylum for Idiots & Imbeciles of the Northern Counties (Lancaster, England)Date: 1872
