Stories
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An insider’s view of Play Well
Curator Shamita Sharmacharja offers behind-the-scenes insights into an exhibition about the serious business of play.
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Disability, education and prejudice
In the 1960s and 1970s, thalidomide survivors had to fight for a proper education. If they weren’t brought up in institutions, they were often viewed as objects of curiosity, encountering verbal and sometimes physical abuse, both at school and in the world beyond.
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Written on my body
Scars mean David Jesudason has never enjoyed seeing his reflection. Recounting the stories behind the marks on his face and body, he finds the only one that symbolises hope and happiness.
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We are from here, but not from here
Novelist JJ Bola on being a refugee with a British passport and what that placenessless means for a search for identity.
Catalogue
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Muscles and morals : organized playgrounds and urban reform, 1880-1920 / Dominick Cavallo.
Cavallo, Dominick, 1946-Date: 1981- Archives and manuscripts
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'Adventure playgrounds' A few presscuttings, and printed information about the 'Adventure Playground Project'
Date: 1967-1970Reference: PP/ADD/K/2/2Part of: Robina Addis (1900-1986): archives
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A paper on the necessity of open spaces and public playgrounds in large towns / presented to the General Committee, December 13, 1861 by W. T. Marriott.
Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association.Date: 1862- Books
Variations in development and motor control in goiterous and non-goiterous adolescent girls / by Louise A. Nelson.
Nelson, Louise A. (Louise Anna)Date: 1929- Pictures
A playground: a swing, a slide, a roundabout etc. with children playing. Watercolour by J. Millburn, 1968.
Millburn, Joan, active approximately 1968.Date: 31.5.68 [31 May 1968]Reference: 3006294iPart of: Adamson Collection
