Stories
- Article
How we bury our children
Following her baby daughter’s funeral, Wendy Pratt found that visiting the grave gave her a way to carry out physical acts of caring for her child. Here she considers how parents’ nurturing instincts live on after a child’s death.
- Article
Having children as a fat woman
When she sought fertility advice, and at antenatal appointments, Ellie Levenson found that medics were openly anti-fat. Only years later can she evaluate the true repercussions of their words and actions.
- 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.
Catalogue
- Books
Zur Geschichte der subkutanen Injektionen und Injektabilia in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts mit besonderer Berücksichti-gung der Quecksilbertherapie / von Gottfried Schramm.
Schramm, Gottfried, 1927-Date: 1987- Audio
- Online
Frank Rowntree compilation recordings. Part 3, Track 14.
Date: 1972- Audio
- Online
Frank Rowntree compilation recordings. Part 2, Track 4.
Date: 1972- Videos
Every parent's nightmare.
Date: 1999- Videos
When to change faces.
Date: 1992