Stories
- Article
Enduring taboos and the future of skin bleaching
Many condemn skin bleaching in public while secretly lightening their own complexions. To break away from these taboos, we need honest information and open conversation.
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Where hoarding and dementia meet
As Grandma’s dementia advanced, the things she’d amassed became more important: they consoled her. Clearing safe walkways through the piles became the first – though unwelcome – compromise.
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The fine line between collecting and hoarding
Being ‘a collector’ is often celebrated but being labelled ‘a hoarder’ can be humiliating, at best. Georgie Evans asks what makes one set of objects a collection and another a hoard.
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The bishop’s profitable sex workers
How did the Church rake in revenue from 14th-century sex regulations? Kate Lister explores a bishop’s lucrative rulebook.
Catalogue
- Books
Soaps, perfumery, drugs & surgical.
Harrods Ltd.Date: [between 1922 and 1937]- Ephemera
Soaps, perfumery drugs & surgical / Harrods.
Date: [between 1940 and 1950?]- Books
Soaps : a practical manual on the manufacture of domestic, toilet and other soaps / by George H. Hurst.
Hurst, George H. (George Henry)Date: 1922- Books
Soaps and proteins : their colloid chemistry in theory and practice / by Martin H. Fischer ... with the collaboration of George D. McLaughlin ... and Marian O. Hooker.
Fischer, Martin, 1879-1962.Date: 1921- Ephemera
A great advance in a British industry : "Sapon" soaps / patentees and manufacturers: Sapon Soaps Limited.
Sapon Soaps Ltd.Date: [1917?]