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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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  • Toddlers and children queuing up to see the doctor. Process print after A. Dick Dumas, ca. 1920.
  • Beckenham Baby Show, London: two toddlers kissing. Photograph, 1922.
  • Park Royal Hospital, Willesden, London: toddlers in a cart being pulled along by a donkey led by a nurse. Photograph, 1925.
  • Two toddlers fed on Mellin's food for infants, with testimonials by their parents advertising Mellin's product. Process print, 25 September 1897.
  • Park Royal Hospital, Willesden, London: toddlers in a cart being pulled along by a donkey led by a nurse. Photograph, 1925.
  • [British Red Cross Society Christmas card featuring a photograph of Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and Prince Charles and Princess Anne as toddlers].
  • [British Red Cross Society Christmas card featuring a photograph of Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and Prince Charles and Princess Anne as toddlers].
  • [British Red Cross Society Christmas card featuring a photograph of Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and Prince Charles and Princess Anne as toddlers].
  • [British Red Cross Society Christmas card featuring a photograph of Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and Prince Charles and Princess Anne as toddlers].
  • A Lapp (Sami) woman holding her baby in a child carrier, her two toddlers beside her. Photograph by Davey & Hackney, ca. 1913.
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