Stories
- Article
How we bury our children
Following her baby daughter’s funeral, Wendy Pratt found that visiting the grave gave her a way to carry out physical acts of caring for her child. Here she considers how parents’ nurturing instincts live on after a child’s death.
- Article
The hidden history of homesickness
Gail Tolley delves into the history of homesickness and discovers that its rich past holds a clue to how we view the experience today.
- Article
Drugs in Victorian Britain
Many common remedies were taken throughout the 19th century, with more people than ever using them. What was the social and cultural context of this development?
- Article
Mixed heritage lesbian couples and fertility treatment
For a lesbian couple who want to share their different cultural heritages with their child, fertility treatment can get very complicated.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
ORACLE Children's Study
Hazel ThorntonDate: 2001-2002Reference: PP/HTH/C/4/45Part of: Hazel Thornton: Archive- Archives and manuscripts
Story entitled 'Mokili the Bambole Elephant' (written in response to a Children's Special Service Mission competition to promote the writing of evangelical literature for children)
Date: c.1947Reference: WTI/SGB/E.2/1/1Part of: Browne, Stanley George, CMG, OBE, MD, FRCS, FRCP, DTM (1907-1986)- Archives and manuscripts
Story entitled 'Mokili the Bambole Elephant' (written in response to a Children's Special Service Mission competition to promote the writing of evangelical literature for children)
Date: c.1947Reference: WTI/SGB/E.2/1/2Part of: Browne, Stanley George, CMG, OBE, MD, FRCS, FRCP, DTM (1907-1986)- Journals
Rehabilitation literature.
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Drug Abuse; Alcoholism; Smoking; Children Smoking
Date: 1960s-1970sReference: PP/GRA/E.6Part of: Grahame, Helene (1925-2012)