Along similar lines, publications are bombarded with articles equating thinness to beauty, for example “From losing weight to getting ripped: 10 tips to improve your health and beauty” and “Gemma Collins showcases her 3.5st weight loss” are just examples of two of the headlines published in 2022 regarding weight. In the twenty-first century if you pick up your phone and open Tik Tok or Instagram or even pick up a magazine you will see endless posts of women with a similar lean body type and celebrities/influencers with photoshopped bodies. The Tatler and London Life are eclectic resources for all researchers of British society in the early to mid twentieth-century.ĭespite the diversity of the material, one thing that has remained relatively consistent across the material, spanning 65 years, is the message that only thinness equates to beauty. There is something within these collections to suit a wide variety of research interests from corsets, debutante balls, sporting, the Boer War, fashion, politics, World War’s, theatre to the Swinging Sixties. Encompassing just under 300,000 images and containing over 3,000 issues, that were published between July 1901 to December 1966, these two collections are an invaluable source for students and researchers alike. Our exciting new collections, The Tatler, 1901-1965 and London Life 1965-1966, explore British high society across some of the biggest social and cultural changes in Britain. From the Archive: Beauty Standards and Diet Culture in British Print Media, 1901-1966
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