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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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.
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How your hairdresser could save your life
Barbers and hairdressers have a unique view of us – one that means they can spot potentially dangerous health problems. Find out how buzzcuts can lead to blood-pressure checks, and dip-dyes show the way to the dermatologist.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
Catalogue
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The husband forc'd to be jealous, or The good fortune of those women that have jealous husbands / A translation by N.H.
Date: 1668- Books
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The fair sex vindicated, from folly and extravagance. An essay. By the Rev. James Penn, Vicar of Clavering, Essex, Domestic Chaplain to Earl Gower, and Lecturer of St. Ann's Aldersgate.
Penn, James, 1727-1800.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
Women in the history of science : a sourcebook / edited by Hannah Wills, Sadie Harrison, Erika Jones, Farrah Lawrence-Mackey and Rebecca Martin.
Date: 2023- Books
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The catologue of contented cuckolds : or, a loving society of confessing brethren of the forked order, &c. who being met together in a tavern, declar'd each man his condition, resolving to be contented, and drown'd melancholly in a glass of necktar. To the tune of, Fond boy, &c. or, love's a sweet passion, &c.
Date: [1685?]- Books
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The London cuckold: or, an antient citizens head well fitted with a flourishing pair of fashionable horns : by his buxome young wife, who was well back'd by a coltish spark, in the time of her husbands absence at the campaign on Hounslow-Heath. Tune of, O mother! Roger, &c. This may be printed, R.P.
Date: [1688]