Stories
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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
- Article
Born different
For Chris North, being born intersex in the 1940s meant his many childhood hospital visits, tests and operations were not explained or discussed. As he reveals, doctors encouraged strict secrecy.
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Defying deafness through music
Did you know that Beethoven’s profession meant he was ashamed to admit to being deaf? Find out how similar prejudices persist today and how our writer is helping to break them down.
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Parks and politics in Brixton’s past and present
Gentrification is creeping along Railton Road, but racial inequality still lingers in memories of the 1980s, and in the continuing lack of green-space access.
Catalogue
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Festival hymns for the use of the blew [sic] and green coat boys, of the Charity-School; newly erected by the mayor and corporation at the town of Reading. Anno Domini, 1723. ...
Charity-School (Reading, England)Date: 1723- Books
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The state of the Ladies Charity-School, lately set up in Baldwin-Street, in the city of Bristol, for teaching poor girls to read and spin; together with their rules and methods of proceeding.
Ladies Charity School (Bristol, England)Date: 1756- Books
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This year shalt thou die. A sermon preached for the benefit of the charity-school in Gravel-Lane, Southwark, on New-Years-Day, 1738-9. In St. Thomas's, Southwark. By Henry Read.
Read, Henry, 1686-1774.Date: 1739- Books
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Lessons for children, historical & practical; to which are added, some prayers and the chief rules for spelling and dividing words into syllables; designed to bring them to read well and distinctly in a shorter time than is usual. Drawn up for the use of a charity-school in the country.
Date: 1713