Rochelle Rowe

  Dr Rochelle Rowe is a Lecturer in Black British History at Edinburgh University. Rochelle’s work focuses on race, gender, and the body, histories of the Caribbean and Black Britain. Her first book, Imagining Caribbean Womanhood, tells a feminist history of...

Susan Stewart

I read Latin and Ancient History at Edinburgh University and some considerable time later got the opportunity to study for a Phd. Having always been interested in social history I chose to research cosmetics and perfumes in the Roman world focusing on gender, health...

Lucy Jane Santos

Specialising in the late 19th and early 20th century Lucy Jane Santos is a freelance historian and consultant examining the crossroads of health, leisure and beauty with science and technology. After completing a BA in Egyptian Archaeology and a MA in Museum and...

Hillary Belzer

  Hillary Belzer is the founder and curator of The Makeup Museum, a virtual museum she established in 2008. Dedicated to the preservation, research and exhibition of cosmetics from antiquity through the 21st century, The Makeup Museum is a progressive, unique...