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On the Rag

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  • Speech-to-text
Photograph from the gallery level in the Reading Room looking down into the exhibition space below. There is a group of eight people sitting on a carpet engaged in an activity involving strips of paper containing typed words.
Unexpected Interludes in the Reading Room, Thomas SG Farnetti. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

What you’ll do

Join us for a discussion about the cultures, histories and science of menstruation. Starting with the many ways we describe periods, we'll explore how our ideas about this bodily function have been shaped.

About your speakers

Visitor experience assistants Elissavet Ntoulia and Nelly Ekstrom have been exploring the subject of menstruation in our collections.

Where we’ll be

You will find us on the chairs in the centre of the Reading Room on level 2.

Dates

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Past

Need to know

Location

We’ll be in the Reading Room on level 2. You can walk up the spiral staircase to the Reading Room door, or take the lift up and then head left from the Library Desk.

Speech-to-text

This event will be live-transcribed. The captions will be displayed on a screen in-venue.

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