Stories
- Article
Book design, dissected
Gwen Smith talks to art director Peter Dyer about imagery, colour, type and staying true to the pages within.
- Book extract
Renaissance women and their killer cosmetics
In this extract from ‘How to be a Renaissance Woman’, Jill Burke delves into a complex world of beauty products, poison and patriarchy – and reveals the impossible contradictions of femininity faced by 16th-century women.
- Book extract
Dangers inside and out
Eimear McBride reflects on the deadly consequences of misogyny in the wake of the murder of Sarah Everard and argues why advising women to simply “stay indoors” is wrong.
- Article
Restoring disorder to ‘The Book of Disquiet’
Printer Tim Hopkins explains what making an extraordinary new edition of Fernando Pessoa’s book revealed about both the text and the mind.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Ewan, Elizabeth, Innes, Sue and Reynolds, Sian (Eds) - The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women
Date: 2006Reference: DGH1/10/1/16Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
Press Adverts - Dips and Livestock Remedies
Cooper McDougall & Robertson LtdDate: Mar 1930 - 12 Jan 1943Reference: WF/C/M/GB/A/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
Going public : women and publishing in early modern France / edited by Elizabeth C. Goldsmith and Dena Goodman.
Date: 1995- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Unknown - Decorative Vignette - 'The Coral Caves'
Date: c.1850Reference: DGH1/7/3/1/133Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
Women's Health Library: archive
Women's Health Library (1988-2006)Date: 1953-2006Reference: SA/WHL