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‘Women weren't supposed to have a job, so they set up salons in their front rooms’: Historian charts Dublin’s changing hairdressing scene
Not allowed to work in commercial hairdressers, Dublin women set up shop in their own front rooms. "They’d have the equipment, the hood dryers, the chairs, the sink,” says Dublin City Council ...
How Valentine’s Day was transformed by the Industrial Revolution and ‘manufactured intimacy’
In 1866, journalist Andrew Halliday led his readers on a guided tour of one of London’s foremost card manufacturers – to ...