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When a private pee is a public disgrace

The free pee is getting rarer. And the lack of suitably equipped disabled toilets is condemning people to lives cloistered away in their own homes. Discover how toilet access for all is part of an equal society.

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How the Peckham Experiment inspired my fiction

Find out how an unruly mass of archive material from a 1930s radical health centre has inspired brand new writing.

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Thalidomide survivors in the 21st century

As thalidomide survivors enter their 60s, they look back on their lives and the legacy of the thalidomide catastrophe.

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Are you still nursing?

Julia Martins might get the side-eye for breastfeeding a three-year-old in the UK but, as she explains, examples from history, as well as the cultural norms of Brazil, where she grew up, are firmly on the side of extended nursing.

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  • An ama (woman diver) on shore combs her wet hair while breast feeding a toddler. Colour woodcut after Utamaro, 1900/1920 (?).
  • A mother breastfeeding and another feeding a toddler nutritional food: in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Jam'iyyar Matan Arewa Resource & Training Center, ca. 1995.
  • A toddler prepares to take the risk of trying to walk across the room towards its father or grandfather. Wood engraving by A. Bellenger after Gaetano Chierici.
  • A toddler and his teddy bear in a high chair on which are placed a carrot and an apple; representing dental hygiene. Colour lithograph after Tllley, 1965.
  • A toddler in a walking frame is kicking bottles of sedatives, representing the preference for clean bottle-feeding over pharmaceutical sedatives for infants. Colour process print after F. Poulbot.
  • A man smoking a cigar while a toddler sits on his knee: a cat looks on with disapproval; representing the bad effects of smoking in the presence of children. Colour lithograph for Stichting Volksgezondheid en Roken (Stivoro), ca. 2000.
  • Let the toddler's first steps -lead to the welfare centre : get expert attention and advice before and after baby comes, advice on feeding -milk or special food, trained nurses who like children, do what the doctor tells you : Norfolk / Ministry of Health.
  • Beckenham Baby Show, London: two toddlers kissing. Photograph, 1922.
  • Toddlers and children queuing up to see the doctor. Process print after A. Dick Dumas, ca. 1920.
  • Park Royal Hospital, Willesden, London: toddlers in a cart being pulled along by a donkey led by a nurse. Photograph, 1925.
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