Stories
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Dyslexia and its misconceptions
Overcoming common myths about dyslexia only adds to the challenges of growing up with the condition. Madeleine Morley, who was diagnosed with dyslexia aged eight, goes into myth-busting mode and shares her personal experiences.
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The intermediate life of spirits
Courttia Newland explores the events and his feelings surrounding the death of his mother-in-law, Tara Chauhan.
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Ken’s ten: looking back at ten years of Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Collection founder Ken Arnold picks his favourite exhibits.
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How the Peckham Experiment inspired my fiction
Find out how an unruly mass of archive material from a 1930s radical health centre has inspired brand new writing.
Catalogue
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Living in the land of limbo : fiction and poetry about family caregiving / Carol Levine, editor.
Date: 2014- Pictures
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Six soldiers and a captain on a song sheet for children. Colour line block with letterpress after T. Prentis and E. Farjeon.
Farjeon, Eleanor, 1881-1965.Date: [between 1920 and 1926?]Reference: 35658iPart of: Nursery sheet- Archives and manuscripts
Ringbinder of Ursula Bowlby's poetry labelled "To my children. Whatever else you jettison, don't burn this", as well as loose pages of poetry.
Date: 1920s-1940sReference: PP/BOW/P.19/2Part of: Bowlby, (Edward) John (Mostyn) (1907-1990)- Books
Now this won't hurt! : an anthology of poetry / by the children of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital School.
Date: [1981], ©1981- Books
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A collection of pretty poems for the amusement of children six foot high. Interspersed With a Series of Letters From Cousin Sam to Cousin Sue, On the Subjects of Criticism, Poetry, and Politics. With Notes Variorum. Calculated with a Design to do Good. Adorned with variety of copper-plate cuts, designed and engraved by the best Masters.
Date: [1757?]