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Victorian period, was that they were inseparable from that most troublesome of activities, sex. Within marriage, sex was of course sometimes necessary. Mary Wood-Allen,

Children who were required to sleep in trundle beds low to the floor were likely to be especially familiar with the whiskery closeness of

Although lead’s dangers have been well known for a long time, it continued to be used in many products well into the twentieth century.

woodwork. Oil paints were a more complex proposition. They consisted of a base (usually lead carbonate, or “white lead”), a pigment for color, a

when Sforza returned from Florence to the Romagna he began writing regularly to Cosimo in his mixed Italian dialect, addressing him as ‘Magnifice tanquam

I have never before, and have never since, seen an exhibition of mass hysteria so universal in its scope” in regard to a book

The decision that the committee finally arrived at was a controversial one: the winning design was judged to have been provided by an unknown