Stories
- Photo story
How wigs help children handle hair loss
For young people who lose their hair during cancer treatment, a wig can make them feel normal again. Carmel King photographs some of the processes and people involved with a charity providing beautiful human-hair wigs for kids.
- Article
The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.
- Article
Doctor in the house
A house is not always a home – sometimes it’s impermanent, impersonal. But other aspects of the itinerant life can be the source of a sense of home.
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Eugenics and the welfare state
Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.
Catalogue
- Books
School children, and how school attendance affects their health / by Miss C. Cochrane.
Cochrane, C., Miss.Date: 1923- Pictures
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School children visiting a segregated corrugated toilet and washing their hands: hygiene in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
Date: [2000?]Reference: 756161i- Archives and manuscripts
Sick children at Croydon School
Date: 19th CenturyReference: PP/HO/D/D52Part of: Hodgkin family- Books
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To the Sunday School children of Glasgow.
Date: [1889?]- Archives and manuscripts
`Jealous and spiteful children' "Home & School"
Date: Jul 1939Reference: PP/BOW/K.11/3Part of: Bowlby, (Edward) John (Mostyn) (1907-1990)