Anya Griffiths (she/her) is a historian of medicine and consumer culture in Eighteenth and Nineteenth century Britain. Following completion of her undergraduate degree at the University of Manchester’s Centre for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Anya was awarded a Wellcome Studentship for completion of a master’s degree at the University of York where her thesis focused on advertisements and cultural depictions of treatments for venereal disease in Georgian Britain. Anya undertook a PhD at York in January 2024, the working title of her thesis is ‘Redefining the Medical Fringe: A Visual and Textual Analysis of Medical Advertisements in English Newspapers and Ephemera (1780-1830). Anya has published research on eighteenth century advertising in journals relating to the history of marketing, and research on Georgian cosmetics and perfumes. Anya’s research approaches the history cosmetics as a wider history of medicine, health, hygiene, and beauty. Anya is particularly interested in the history of cosmetic advertising and branding, and the birth of the modern pharmaceutical industry.