A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- The price of fashion in 1910.
- A reconstructed Auschwitz letter.
- Mary Webster survives a hanging.
- Who owns Marsha P. Johnson’s story?
- Cholera remedies in the mid-19th century.
- Century-old vial sheds light on first vaccine.
- The women artists on the London Underground.
- Tracing the life on a 19th-century female convict.
- Demonic possession films have a gender problem.
- From the vapours to sad face: a history of emotion.
- St. Louis gay history unfolds on an interactive map.
- Briefing Margaret Thatcher on punk and pop music.
- The existential horror created by the first x-ray images.
- Thalidomide campaigners in talks with German government.
- Donuts & apple cider: an autumn tradition brought to you by cars.
- A shoebox full of stories and drawings sheds light on 19th-century boyhood.