Stories
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Surviving sex work on the streets
In care at four, on the streets at nine, Charmaine has had a traumatic journey to reach life as it is now: no drugs, no sex work, looking after her mum, and enjoying her grandchildren. Here she writes honestly about her past.
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Being trans in the world of sex work
Unstable. Predatory. Risk takers. Dr Adrienne Macartney sheds stark light on the hostile and negative assumptions faced by trans sex workers.
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Permission to recover
When it comes to illness, sometimes the end is just the beginning. Gavin Francis argues why being given permission to recover is so important.
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Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
Catalogue
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Regulations for the Charity Work-House, or hospital of Edinburgh.
Edinburgh Charity Work-House.Date: M.DCC.L. [1750]- Books
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Regulations for the Charity Work-House or Hospital at Dalkeith.
Charity Work-House (Dalkeith, Scotland)Date: 1750]- Books
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The mite. An essay upon the office of Church-Deacons, and the duty of charity, calculated for discovering, that the late application by the Town-Council of Edinburgh, for a law imposing, upon house-holders there, a tax (instead of the public collections on the Lord's day, &c.) for maintaining their Charity Work-House, is destructive to the said office and duty, &c. Humbly inscribed to the Town-Council and ministers of Edinburgh. By a Lover of peace and truth.
Lover of peace and truth.Date: Printed in the year MDCCXLIX. [1749]- Books
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Considerations on the present mode of quartering soldiers, in the suburbs of Edinburgh, particularly in the Burgh of Canongate; Containing some observations on the Grievances complained of by the trading part of the inhabitants, on that account.
Date: Printed in the year M,DCC,LXXX. [1780]- Books
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Regulations for the charity work-house, or hospital of Edinburgh.
Orphan Hospital and Workhouse at Edinburgh.Date: M.DCC.XLIII. [1743]