Stories
- Article
The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
- Article
Nurturing my autistic, gender-questioning child
As mother of an autistic child who questions her gender, Jude Lax describes cherishing her growing daughter as she explores her identity.
- Article
Do good mothers make good democracy?
To be psychologically fit for democracy, one distinguished paediatrician argued that you need a ‘good enough mother’ – and that we must acknowledge the bad side of our feelings.
- Article
Desperate housewives and suburban neurosis
Discover how a pioneering health centre replaced housewives’ supposedly empty home lives with a social space that encouraged healthy child rearing.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
"Child Development I & General"
Date: 1960s-1980sReference: PP/BOW/K.14/1Part of: Bowlby, (Edward) John (Mostyn) (1907-1990)- Archives and manuscripts
Child Development
Date: c.1940s-1950sReference: GC/148/15-19Part of: Winnicott, Clare- Archives and manuscripts
Child development: general notes etc.
Date: c.1940s-1950sReference: GC/148/15/15Part of: Winnicott, Clare- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Child Development Research Unit (CDU) (Tavistock) and Bowlby Applications'
Date: 1961-1962Reference: PP/BOW/D.6/4Part of: Bowlby, (Edward) John (Mostyn) (1907-1990)- Archives and manuscripts
National Child Development Study
Date: 1968-1973Reference: SA/NBT/M.10/12/3Part of: National Birthday Trust Fund