Stories
- Article
Sex in graphic novels
Sex and sexuality have long been explored in the history of the graphic novel.
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The ‘undesirable epileptic’
Abused in her marriage for being 'a sick woman', Aparna Nair looked to history to make sense of the response to her epilepsy. She discovered how centuries of fear and discrimination were often endorsed by science and legislation.
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Louis Wain’s cryptic cats
Once famous for his quirky cat illustrations, today Louis Wain is often portrayed as a ‘psychotic’ artist whose illness can be mapped out through his drawings. Here Bryony Benge-Abbott takes a more rounded view.
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Thousands of years of women’s pain
Even in the 21st century, women with severe monthly pain find their suffering minimised or dismissed by the medical profession. Such pain is seen as simply a natural part of being female.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
List of documents relating to Jean Louis Rast-Maupas (1731-1821), silk-processor
Date: 19th century - 20th centuryReference: MS.7449/7Part of: Rast-Maupas Family, France, 18th-19th century- Archives and manuscripts
List of works by Jean Baptiste Antoine Rast-Maupas (1732-1810), physician
Date: 19th century - 20th centuryReference: MS.7449/5Part of: Rast-Maupas Family, France, 18th-19th century- Archives and manuscripts
Turner, John William (1790-1835), surgeon
Date: late 18th century - early 19th centuryReference: MS.7780/16-17Part of: Miscellany: English, 19th-20th centuries- Archives and manuscripts
Bunsen, Robert (1811-1899), German chemist
Bunsen, R. (Robert), 1811-1899Date: 19th centuryReference: MS.8802- Archives and manuscripts
Notes by Jean Jacques Théophile Schloesing
Date: late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: MS.7576/4-8Part of: Schloesing, Jean Jacques Théophile (1824-1919), French analytical chemist, and his son Schloesing, Alphonse Thóphile (1856-1930), French agricultural chemists