Stories
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Selling sex and sacrificing safety
Sex workers who report crimes against them can face a “what do you expect?” attitude. But one organisation is working to protect vulnerable people in the sex industry.
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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.
- In pictures
Historical ways to hang on to your hair
Could upper-class hair-hygiene regimes cause baldness, or does hair health depend on a blast of deadly mercury? Maisie Jenkins scours the archives for historic follicle care.
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Dial ‘S’ for sex
In pre-internet days, phone boxes became a patchwork of ‘tart cards’ offering sexual services. Find out about the clandestine world they hint at.
Catalogue
- Digital Images
- Online
Selling insecticide treated nets
M Rowland- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Selling prices at clinics
Date: 1952-1966Reference: SA/FPA/A1/40Part of: Family Planning Association- Books
Selling dreams : inside the beauty business / Margaret Allen.
Allen, Margaret, 1933-Date: [1981], ©1981- Videos
Selling murder : the killing films of the Third Reich.
Date: 1991- Books
Selling beauty : cosmetics, commerce, and French society, 1750-1830 / Morag Martin.
Martin, Morag.Date: 2009