Wednesday, 1 October 2025, at 4pm BST/GMT+1
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Teeth and Women’s Quest for Beauty
Toothcare was once a source of dreadful anxiety for women, rich and poor. In this paper, Dr Margarette Lincoln will consider how women cared for their teeth in the past, focussing largely on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In doing so, she will also explore the links between oral health and maritime history, and shed new light on metropolitan history, since London was a centre for dental care.
About the Speaker
Dr Margarette Lincoln is Curator Emerita at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, where she also acted as Deputy Director until 2015. She has held research posts at Goldsmiths, University of London, and at the University of Portsmouth. Dr Lincoln gives regular talks and podcast appearances. Her latest book Perfection: 400 Years of Women’s Quest for Beauty was published by Yale University Press in 2024. Other major publications published by Dr Lincoln include London and the Seventeenth Century: The Making of the World’s Greatest City (2021) and Trading in War, which was shortlisted for the Wolfson Prize in 2019.