Stories
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The ugly truth about fast fashion
Aja Barber reflects on her relationship with fast fashion, outlines its polluting and destructive effects, and shares the small, personal changes we can make that could help.
- In pictures
Toxic trends
The high cost of fashion is not always in the price tag. Sometimes the latest make-up trend or the season's hottest colour conceals something ugly.
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Building resilience in a racist world
With the resurgence of racism in today’s UK, Louisa Adjoa Parker reflects on the trauma of growing up in a racist society and explores how victims could begin to heal.
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Shame and the online free-for-all
Lucia Osborne-Crowley looks at how shame manifests online, where public humiliation is common and second chances all too rare.
Catalogue
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Ugliness : a cultural history / Gretchen E. Henderson.
Henderson, Gretchen E.Date: 2015- Pictures
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Mary Squires, a gypsy renowned for her ugliness. Engraving.
Reference: 1823i- Books
On ugliness / edited by Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen.
Date: 2007- Books
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Agreeable ugliness: Or, The triumph of the graces. Exempified in the real life and fortunes of a young lady of distinction.
Scott, Sarah, 1723-1795.Date: [1769?]- Books
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Agreeable ugliness: or, the triumph of the graces. Exemplified in the real life and fortunes of a young lady of some distinction.
Scott, Sarah, 1723-1795.Date: M.DCC.LIV. [1754]