Stories
- Photo story
Obesity and Britain’s boys
Six young men and six experiences of being overweight. Find out how these boys and their loved ones feel about this stigmatising issue.
- Article
Disability, education and prejudice
In the 1960s and 1970s, thalidomide survivors had to fight for a proper education. If they weren’t brought up in institutions, they were often viewed as objects of curiosity, encountering verbal and sometimes physical abuse, both at school and in the world beyond.
- Article
Ancestry, privacy and the family tree
Wanting to find out more about her Jamaican grandfather, Tanya Perdikou contemplates DNA testing. But first she has to consider the potential impact of unexpected results.
- Article
To write in golden photographs
When Rachel Genn’s brother disappeared, a newspaper article led the family to his bedside. But the accident he’d barely survived was not to be the last tragedy in his life.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Luisa Brunori, "Brothers and sisters"
Date: 1996-1997Reference: PP/SHF/F/12/2Part of: Foulkes, Siegmund Heinrich (1898-1976) and Elizabeth Therese Fanny (née Marx) (1918-2004)- Books
To my trans sisters / edited by Charlie Craggs.
Date: 2018- Archives and manuscripts
Old birth and baptismal certificates of the Schafer family
Date: 19th century - 20th centuryReference: PP/ESS/P.6Part of: Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer (1850-1935)- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence with relations
Date: mid 19th century - mid 20th centuryReference: PP/ESS/P.3Part of: Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer (1850-1935)- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence with relations
Date: mid 19th century - mid 20th centuryReference: PP/ESS/P.2Part of: Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer (1850-1935)