Stories
- Article
To write in golden photographs
When Rachel Genn’s brother disappeared, a newspaper article led the family to his bedside. But the accident he’d barely survived was not to be the last tragedy in his life.
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Children in burns prevention campaigns
Whose responsibility is it to prevent accidental burns and scalds in the home? Shane Ewen’s research shows that it’s everyone’s concern.
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Healing hard-working hands
The names we use to describe different hand injuries tell us about history, gender and class. Occupational therapist María Cristina Jiménez explores those injuries, and the changing ways we talk about them.
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The psychological impact of nuclear war
How would you hold up psychologically if a nuclear bomb was dropped? Discover the British government’s secret predictions from the 1980s.
Catalogue
- Books
Accidents in the home / report of the Standing Interdepartmental Committee on Accidents in the Home.
Great Britain. Standing Interdepartmental Committee on Accidents in the Home.Date: 1953- Archives and manuscripts
"The Prevention of Burning Accidents in the Home" L Colebrook, Health Education Journal, Apr 1947
Date: 1947Reference: PP/COL/C.2/25Part of: Colebrook, Leonard, FRS, FRCOG, FRCS (1883-1967), bacteriologist- Archives and manuscripts
`Child Accidents in the Home - Cases, Statistics and Prevention'
Date: c.1990Reference: GC/157/C/7/9Part of: Nelson, Alastair Morrison (1924-1993)- Archives and manuscripts
Extract from report of MOH Blackburn on Accidents in the Home
Date: 1956Reference: SA/NBT/Q.8/3Part of: National Birthday Trust Fund- Archives and manuscripts
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All the Media; Health Education by the doctor; Pollution; Immunization; Nutrition; Dental Health; Home Accidents
Date: 1960s-1970sReference: PP/GRA/E.5Part of: Grahame, Helene (1925-2012)