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How Brits went soft on toilet paper

Twentieth-century studies reveal a whole host of anxieties about the terrors of soft toilet paper.

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The blood notebooks

Novelist Rupert Thomson explores his unusual behaviour during a time of self-imposed isolation.

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How to stay together while keeping apart

Vivek Murthy explores how we can keep physically distant while staying emotionally connected.

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Blood money: Taking periods out of poverty

Periods are not a wound that needs to heal, nor is the blood a sign of injury. So why are we still so repelled by them?

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  • Leaflet advertising Bromo paper toilet tissue manufactured by Diamond Mills Paper Company of 44 Murray Street, New York, probably about 1878 or early 1880s. The paper contained the "disinfectants and curatives" Bromo chloralum and carbolic acid "as to render its use not only a positive preventive of that most distressing and almost universal complaint, the Piles, but also a thorough deodorizer and disinfectant of the water closet." The paper had a watermark "Bromo" in every sheet.
  • Some good reasons for using Sunlight Soap / [Lever Brothers Ltd.].
  • Some good reasons for using Sunlight Soap / [Lever Brothers Ltd.].
  • Some good reasons for using Sunlight Soap / [Lever Brothers Ltd.].
  • Some good reasons for using Sunlight Soap / [Lever Brothers Ltd.].
  • Dr. Mackenzie's Arsenical Soap.
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