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To write in golden photographs

When Rachel Genn’s brother disappeared, a newspaper article led the family to his bedside. But the accident he’d barely survived was not to be the last tragedy in his life.

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Dial ‘S’ for sex

In pre-internet days, phone boxes became a patchwork of ‘tart cards’ offering sexual services. Find out about the clandestine world they hint at.

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Trans masculinity on the record

Curator of the Museum of Transology in Brighton E-J Scott tells the story behind a few of the 250 objects from the collection, and the powerful effect they had on him as he put trans lives on the record.

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The shifting shape of language

Author Jessica Andrews explores how her brother’s deafness has influenced her relationship with words and the world.

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  • With the compliments of Smith's Potato Crisps : mount the two jockeys on the two horses without bending, cutting, or in anyway mutilating the cards : it can be done - try it.
  • With the compliments of Smith's Potato Crisps : mount the two jockeys on the two horses without bending, cutting, or in anyway mutilating the cards : it can be done - try it.
  • With the compliments of Smith's Potato Crisps : mount the two jockeys on the two horses without bending, cutting, or in anyway mutilating the cards : it can be done - try it.
  • With the compliments of Smith's Potato Crisps : mount the two jockeys on the two horses without bending, cutting, or in anyway mutilating the cards : it can be done - try it.
  • With the compliments of Smith's Potato Crisps : mount the two jockeys on the two horses without bending, cutting, or in anyway mutilating the cards : it can be done - try it.
  • Borwick's baking powder is the best / [George Borwick & Sons].
  • Dame Trot : to market, to market went little Dame Trot, Sunlight Soap for mother the pretty maid got... / [Lever Brothers Ltd.].
  • Episodes in the pantomime Harlequin skeleton. Engraving, 1772.
  • Horlicks transition modulator : price, one shilling : the keys to health / Horlicks Malted Milk Company.
  • Veno's motor race round Great Britain / [Veno Drug Co.].
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