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Caring for our Disabled daughter in lockdown

Jane Holmes talks about the challenges of caring for her Disabled daughter while working and trying to stay safe during the pandemic.

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Transitioning and the family album

“It’s really hard to describe to people how you know you’re a man when those ways of describing masculinity to me aren’t true. You need to find your own.”

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Butch drag in the builders’ caff

Two men in a café dressed in practical workwear might seem indistinguishable, but closer inspection reveals layers of complex, nuanced identity.

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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.

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  • A doctor's front door, with a chimney sweep, in the snow. Chromolithograph by John Leighton ("Luke Limner").
  • A doctor's front door, with a chimney sweep, in the snow. Drawing by John Leighton ("Luke Limner").
  • A man in bedclothes prising insects (?) off his bed-curtains with a fork into a saucepan. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
  • A clyster in use. Oil painting by a French painter, ca. 1700(?).
  • A clyster in use. Oil painting by a French painter, ca. 1700(?).
  • A clyster in use. Oil painting by a French painter, ca. 1700(?).
  • A clyster in use. Oil painting by a French painter, ca. 1700(?).
  • Electrical appliances exhibited at the 1882 Electrical Exhibition, including chandeliers and the first telegraph instrument. Wood engraving, 1882.
  • Top, a slave auction in Richmond, Virginia; centre, a coach on a street in Baltimore; bottom left, slaves waiting to be sold, Virginia; bottom right, a slave playing the flute. Wood engraving after E.C., 1856.
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