Dr Kierri Price gives an online tour of a medieval birth girdle - a long roll of parchment covered in texts and images that ...

Our new exhibition explores experiences and perceptions of ageing, from adolescence to older age, and asks how societies can adapt to ensure everyone ages better.

For medieval communities, childbirth was rated alongside war and plague as a situation that put body and soul at risk. Dr Róisín Donohoe examines the place of the birth scroll, in protecting women in ...

Photographs, and how people are presented in them, can impact health and survival. In the 19th century, such photographs and artistic depictions of indigenous people as primitives left behind by ...

Crib and Rosa, the property of Harry Verelst, Esq. to whom this plate is respectfully inscribed by his obt. servts. Abram. Cooper & John Scott. Painted by Abm. Cooper. Engraved by John Scott Lettering ...

A map (p106-107) taken from a report by Dr. John Snow: p. [97]-120 of the "Report on the cholera outbreak in the Parish of St. James, Westminster, during the autumn of 1854", presented to the vestry ...

Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love and had children. And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical ...

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Theatrical performance by deaf mutes. ; John Swain eng. ; Horace Morehen.

In 14th-century London, Church leaders discovered how to make a tidy income from sex workers. Kate Lister explains how this contradictory state of affairs came about. Wherever there have been people ...