Stories
- Article
A walk through other people’s expectations
The steep path isn’t the only thing Caroline Butterwick has to navigate on her Lakeland hike. Always aware of other people’s expectations, she continually monitors how her disability might seem to strangers.
- Article
On nature cures and taking the waters
When chilly outdoor swims began to chip away at her depression, Jessica J Lee was drawn to a closer study of the complex natural world around her.
- Book extract
“Above resistant pavements, I floated”
In this extract from ‘Living with Buildings and Walking with Ghosts’, walk with Iain Sinclair through the streets of London.
- Book extract
A doctor, his community and coronavirus
Reflecting on his experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic, GP Gavin Francis vividly recalls a home visit to a man stricken with breathing difficulties.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Patient in walking frame
Date: June 1957Reference: SA/CSP/Q.1/169Part of: Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
- Pictures
Two mothers with crying babies and one in a walking frame; comparing the human infant's helplessness with the self-sufficiency of newborn animals. Engraving by P. Galle, c. 1563.
Date: [1563?]Reference: 26283i
- Pictures
- Online
An old man with a beard in a walking frame with an hourglass; representing lifelong learning. Engraving by A. Salamanca, 1538.
Date: MDXXXVIII [1538]Reference: 567410i- Pictures
A woman physiotherapist helping an elderly women to walk with a walking frame. Colour lithograph for the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, ca. 1988.
Date: [1988?]Reference: 997528i- Pictures
A boy walks towards a group of men who reach out to him as he is pushed in a walking frame by another man while trampling over miniature figures. Lithograph, ca. 1834.
Date: [1834?]Reference: 643205i