Stories
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A history of sex for sale
Kate Lister’s cultural history of the sex trade puts sex workers centre stage. In this extract, she argues why the way we write, think and talk about sex work matters.
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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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The work of wet-nursing
Many of us know that in the past, babies were sometimes nourished by wet-nurses. But, perhaps surprisingly, the practice continues today – and the milk recipients are not only babies.
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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.
Catalogue
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International labor and working class history
Date: 1976-
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The British Museum: working-class people attending a guided tour and looking at exhibits of English history in glass cases and on the walls. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1843.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: [1843]Reference: 32525i
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Reports on the sanitary state of the labouring classes : as affected chiefly by the situation and construction of their dwellings, in and about the metropolis ; extracted from the fourth and fifth annual reports of the Poor Law Commissioners.
Date: 1840- Books
Dig where you stand : how to research a job / Sven Lindqvist ; edited by Andrew Flinn and Astrid von Rosen ; translated by Ann Henning Jocelyn.
Lindqvist, Sven, 1932-2019Date: 2023- Books
Women and families : an oral history, 1940-1970 / Elizabeth Roberts.
Roberts, Elizabeth, 1936-Date: 1995