Stories
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Homes for the hives of industry
By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.
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Born different
For Chris North, being born intersex in the 1940s meant his many childhood hospital visits, tests and operations were not explained or discussed. As he reveals, doctors encouraged strict secrecy.
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Living with less for spiritual gain
Today, a minimalist lifestyle is trumpeted as a route to happiness. Find out what religious ascetics from history and modern proponents of the spartan-looking home can teach us.
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Menstruation, magic and moon myths
Why do stories cloaking periods in magic and mystery persist? Pragya Agarwal argues against myth-making and for inclusive menstrual education, grounded in fact.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
"GAS: training group church and GP life - Jane Abercrombie and HJH Home"
Date: 1958Reference: SA/GAS/B/5/49Part of: Group Analytic Society
- Books
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Royal Albert Asylum for the care, education, and training of idiotic, imbecile, and weak-minded children and young persons, belonging to Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland : thirty-fifth annual report.
Royal Albert Asylum (Lancaster, England)Date: 1899
- Books
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Royal Albert Asylum for the care, education, and training of idiotic, imbecile, and weak-minded children and young persons, belonging to Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Westmorland, Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland : thirty-fourth annual report.
Royal Albert Asylum (Lancaster, England)Date: 1898
- Pictures
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Playground of the Home and Colonial Infant School Society, London. Wood engraving, c. 1840.
Reference: 24350i- Archives and manuscripts
Introductory Information Packs for Student Nurses
Date: c.1960sReference: DGH1/6/13/3/4Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital