Stories
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
- Article
Parks and politics in Brixton’s past and present
Gentrification is creeping along Railton Road, but racial inequality still lingers in memories of the 1980s, and in the continuing lack of green-space access.
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
- Article
Navigating in a connected world
Alex Lee ponders the promising ideas, stalled projects and pricey gadgets that aim to help visually impaired people get out and about. But it seems that an actual human could be the essential ingredient.
Catalogue
- Journals
ChildAIDS : Newsletter of the National Forum on AIDS and Children.
- Ephemera
- Online
National Children's Bureau Conference : World AIDS Day Conference 1995 : children's participation in HIV services : needs, rights and cultural diversity / a major one day conference organised by the National Forum on AIDS and Children, the European Forum on HIV/AIDS, Children and Families and the National Children's Bureau.
Date: 1995- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Scrap-book containing newspaper and journal cuttings, ephemera of the British Red Cross and Indian Voluntary Aid Contingent, manuals and handbooks on first aid, off prints, invitations, leaflets, 3 photographs (of casualty evacuation training)
Date: 1887-1935Reference: MS.7922Part of: Cantlie, Sir James, F.R.C.S. (1851-1926)- Archives and manuscripts
UK Reports and Frameworks
Date: 1997-2014Reference: PP/CLI/C/2/4Part of: Paul Clift: archives- Videos
- Online
The empty bed.
Date: [1937]