Stories
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Healing hard-working hands
The names we use to describe different hand injuries tell us about history, gender and class. Occupational therapist María Cristina Jiménez explores those injuries, and the changing ways we talk about them.
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Transforming the decorative into dissent
Discover how embroidered messages by two ‘troublesome’ women in 19th-century asylums are mirrored in the therapeutic quilting work of writer Rachel May.
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History of condoms from animal to rubber
Come on a journey from the first recorded condoms in the 16th century to the modern female condoms in the 1990s – and everything in between.
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Pain and the power of activism
Today, women with endometriosis have more access to better information than ever before. Jaipreet Virdi applauds the shared stories, online communities and self-help books empowering women in pain.
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An upper class young woman; representing the St James's area of London. Stipple engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1783, after J.H. Benwell.
Benwell, John Hodges, 1762-1785.Date: 8th Sept.r 1783Reference: 9912i- Pictures
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Two working-class men wearing top hats and moustaches, imitating the fashions of the upper classes, rejoice in their new-found equality in fashion. Wood engraving after John Leech, 1854.
Leech, John, 1817-1864.Date: [1854?]Reference: 35215i- Books
Anatomical note book (for use in class). Part 1, Introductory, osteology, arthrology, upper limb & lower limb / by A. Birmingham.
Birmingham, A. (Ambrose), 1864?-1905.Date: 1903- Books
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Celebrated trials connected with the upper classes of society, in the relations of private life / by Peter Burke.
Burke, Peter, 1811-1881.Date: 1851- Books
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The botanical Magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed: in which the most ornamental foreign plants, cultivated in the Open Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, will be accurately represented in their natural colours. To which will be added, Their Names, Class, Order, Generic and Specific Characters, according to the celebrated Linnaeus; their Places of Growth, and Times of Flowering: Together with the most approved methods of Culture. A work Intended for the Use of Such Ladies, Gentlemen, and Gardeners, as wish to become scientifically acquainted with the Plants they cultivate.
Curtis, William, 1746-1799.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]-1800