Stories
- Article
Chemical highs and psychedelic research
Could recreational drugs make you happy? Kate Wilkinson explores why keen clubber Simon believes taking psychedelics has helped him develop as a person.
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Desperate housewives and suburban neurosis
Discover how a pioneering health centre replaced housewives’ supposedly empty home lives with a social space that encouraged healthy child rearing.
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Dealing with the dead after a nuclear attack
Cold War-era predictions of death on a vast scale became routine. But the British authorities were less prepared to dispose of the bodies.
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Selling sex and sacrificing safety
Sex workers who report crimes against them can face a “what do you expect?” attitude. But one organisation is working to protect vulnerable people in the sex industry.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
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John Fenn Russell - The Holy Family
Date: 1853Reference: DGH1/7/3/1/73Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
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J. G. L. - 'A Large White Family'
Date: 1928Reference: DGH1/7/3/2/10Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
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'Family Party': staff and patients dancing at a party in the Recreation Hall (Picture Post photographs)
Date: 1946Reference: RET 1/8/9/6/7Part of: The Retreat Archive- Archives and manuscripts
"Personal and family leisure expenditure", a review for the joint panel on leisure and recreation research
Health Education CouncilDate: 1979Reference: SA/HEC/B/34/45Part of: Health Education Council and Health Education Authority- Pictures
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Silhouettes of figures with hearts walking representing an advertisement for the AIDS Walk for Life at Rundle Park Family Recreation Centre, Edmonton Canada, 3 Oct. 1993. Colour lithograph.
Date: Sunday Oct 3 1993Reference: 668116i