Stories
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Self-obsessing in the age of selfies
The tiny, joyful spark of a social media ‘like’ can lead to a damaging obsession. Find out how far people will go when their phone addiction gets the upper hand.
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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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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.
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Nymphomania and hypersexuality in women and men
The history of nymphomania is closely bound with society's views on women and their sexuality.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
History: notes, literature, and memorabilia
Date: 1938-2002Reference: SA/ETX/G/2Part of: Archive of EUROTOX and Predecessor Bodies- Books
History of biochemistry in Japan 1877-1940 : a review of the literature / Christine M. Joyner.
Joyner, Christine M.Date: 1978- Books
Aspects of women in antiquity : proceedings of the first Nordic Symposium on Women's Lives in Antiquity, Göteborg 12 - 15 June 1997 / edited by Lena Larsson Lovén & Agneta Strömberg.
Nordic Symposium on Women's Lives in Antiquity 1997 : Göteborg, Sweden)Date: 1998- Archives and manuscripts
Margaret W Menzies Campbell, 'Some Early Scottish Medical Women and Their Hospitals'
Date: (late 1970s)Reference: SA/MWF/C.9/9Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Archives and manuscripts
Ella Hepworth Dixon, 'A Modern Woman - Mrs Kinnell' (re her involvement with Royal Free, and Scottish Women's Hospital in Serbia (xerox), with letter from Edith (Gilchrist) to Joan (Haram), 14 Aug 1980
Date: 1980Reference: SA/MWF/C.9/4Part of: Medical Women's Federation