Stories
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A history of sex for sale
Kate Lister’s cultural history of the sex trade puts sex workers centre stage. In this extract, she argues why the way we write, think and talk about sex work matters.
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Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
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Inside the Cold War mind
Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.
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Colonialism and the origins of skin bleaching
The widespread practice of skin bleaching was heavily influenced by the Western colonisation and slavery of African and South Asian countries. Ngunan Adamu explores this toxic history.
Catalogue
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The cooking gene : a journey through African American culinary history in the Old South / Michael W. Twitty.
Twitty, Michael W., 1977-Date: [2017]- Pictures
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The British Museum: working-class people attending a guided tour and looking at exhibits of English history in glass cases and on the walls. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1843.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: [1843]Reference: 32525i- E-books
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The slave trade and culture in the Bight of Biafra : an African society in the Atlantic world / G. Ugo Nwokeji.
Nwokeji, G. Ugo.Date: 2010- Archives and manuscripts
Hodgkin family
Fox, Sarah, 1804-1890Date: 1737-1980Reference: PP/HO- Books
Plagues upon the earth : disease and the course of human history / Kyle Harper.
Harper, Kyle, 1979-Date: [2021]