Stories
- Article
Shakespeare’s cholerics were the real drama queens
In Shakespeare’s times, people’s personalities were categorised by four temperaments. The choleric temperament was hot-tempered and active.
- Article
Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies
Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.
- Article
Surviving a flesh-eating disease
Nearly dying from a skin infection gave Scott Neill a chance to start again after an early life marked by grief and depression.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Temperance address to Bolton teachers
Date: 4 December 1925Reference: PP/BAR/J/2Part of: Barlow, Sir Thomas (1845-1945)- Archives and manuscripts
Temperance publications
Date: c.1922-c.1925Reference: PP/BAR/T/4Part of: Barlow, Sir Thomas (1845-1945)
- Books
- Online
Temperance pioneers of the West : personal and incidental experiences / by Thomas Hudson.
Hudson, Thomas, 1816-1902.Date: 1887- Archives and manuscripts
Temperance Education Board
Date: 1970Reference: SA/DRS/B/1/414Part of: DrugScope- Archives and manuscripts
Temperance notes, papers and addresses
Date: 1902-(1932)Reference: PP/BAR/JPart of: Barlow, Sir Thomas (1845-1945)