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The friendly societies and healthcare

For a couple of centuries, friendly societies plugged the healthcare gap between expensive private care and charitable institutions for many thousands of people in the UK.

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When everyday environments become anxious spaces

Social anxiety disorder isolates those who experience it. Part of the solution is to design public spaces with mental health in mind.

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Society, not Covid-19, makes us vulnerable

Rick Burgess coped with the death of his mother in February 2020 by immersing himself in the task of protecting his community from Covid-19 and challenging the government's failure to protect and support elderly and Disabled people during the pandemic.

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The Transvengers as foe of the paradigm of heteronormativity

Jason Barker writes about his experience of working with a group of young trans people and describes the process of developing the theory which underlies The Transvengers comic, and society, today.

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  • Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
  • Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
  • Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
  • Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
  • Description of the Retreat, an institution near York, for insane persons of the Society of Friends : containing an account of its origin and progress, the modes of treatment, and a statement of cases / By Samuel Tuke. With an elevation and plans of the building.
  • Description of the Retreat, an institution near York, for insane persons of the Society of Friends : containing an account of its origin and progress, the modes of treatment, and a statement of cases / By Samuel Tuke. With an elevation and plans of the building.
  • Description of the Retreat, an institution near York, for insane persons of the Society of Friends : containing an account of its origin and progress, the modes of treatment, and a statement of cases / By Samuel Tuke. With an elevation and plans of the building.
  • Description of the Retreat, an institution near York, for insane persons of the Society of Friends : containing an account of its origin and progress, the modes of treatment, and a statement of cases / By Samuel Tuke. With an elevation and plans of the building.
  • Brain drain? : depression, mood swings, risk-taking, mid-week blues, rage, lethargy, low self-esteem, neglect, emotional... / Camden & Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust ; designed by Eureka! Graphic Design Limited.
  • Brain drain? : depression, mood swings, risk-taking, mid-week blues, rage, lethargy, low self-esteem, neglect, emotional... / Camden & Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust ; designed by Eureka! Graphic Design Limited.
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