A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news

• Rollerskating Victorians.
• An ode to a suffrage organizer.
• An old maid’s advice from 1748.
• Dental hygiene in the Middle Ages.
• A silent film’s interracial, same-sex kiss.
• Breast milk substitutes in Colonial America.
• Fierce fashion from 19th-century Puerto Rico.
• Fumigating for health in early modern England.
• Women and restaurants in 19th-century America.
• A 1970s cocktail guide from the U.S.Forest Service.
• A helpful chart on name calling throughout history.
• Why are historians obsessed with Game of Thrones?
• A self-defense film from the 1940s (Or: how to kick ass in heels).

Featured Image: The burlesque artist Gypsy Rose Lee at a March of Dimes benefit lunch in New York, 1945, wearing a Charles James outfit. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis