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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.

  • 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.

  • Article

The quest to breed gifted children

If you had the chance, would you choose a genius baby?

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  • Children's animal park.
  • University Children's Hospital, Vienna: doctors examining children. Photograph, 1921.
  • Children's Minimum Council leaflets
  • National Children's Bureau Conference : World AIDS Day Conference 1995 : children's participation in HIV services : needs, rights and cultural diversity / a major one day conference organised by the National Forum on AIDS and Children, the European Forum on HIV/AIDS, Children and Families and the National Children's Bureau.
  • National Children's Bureau Conference : World AIDS Day Conference 1995 : children's participation in HIV services : needs, rights and cultural diversity / a major one day conference organised by the National Forum on AIDS and Children, the European Forum on HIV/AIDS, Children and Families and the National Children's Bureau.
  • National Children's Bureau Conference : World AIDS Day Conference 1995 : children's participation in HIV services : needs, rights and cultural diversity / a major one day conference organised by the National Forum on AIDS and Children, the European Forum on HIV/AIDS, Children and Families and the National Children's Bureau.
  • National Children's Bureau Conference : World AIDS Day Conference 1995 : children's participation in HIV services : needs, rights and cultural diversity / a major one day conference organised by the National Forum on AIDS and Children, the European Forum on HIV/AIDS, Children and Families and the National Children's Bureau.
  • University Children's Hospital, Vienna: children in the outdoor ward. Photograph, 1921.
  • University Children's Hospital, Vienna: two children modelling seasonal clothing. Photograph, 1921.
  • University Children's Hospital, Vienna: two children modelling seasonal clothing. Photograph, 1921.
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  • Workshop

Where do the children play? Larp

Crumbles Castle Playground
Past
  • Discussion

Parent Advocacy and Attitudes Towards Cerebral Palsy in the Mid-20th Century

Online
Available to watch

Part of Exploring Research

  • Auto-captioned
  • British Sign Language
  • Discussion

Why Play Matters

Henry Wellcome Auditorium
Past
  • Hearing loop
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