Stories
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Caring for our Disabled daughter in lockdown
Jane Holmes talks about the challenges of caring for her Disabled daughter while working and trying to stay safe during the pandemic.
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Transitioning and the family album
“It’s really hard to describe to people how you know you’re a man when those ways of describing masculinity to me aren’t true. You need to find your own.”
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Butch drag in the builders’ caff
Two men in a café dressed in practical workwear might seem indistinguishable, but closer inspection reveals layers of complex, nuanced identity.
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Obesity and Britain’s boys
Six young men and six experiences of being overweight. Find out how these boys and their loved ones feel about this stigmatising issue.
Catalogue
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A sick, emaciated man visiting a physician and pulling on the bell-rope at his front door; representing France as a sick person seeking a sound constitution. Colour line block by Lefman after A. Gill, 1873.
Gill, André, 1840-1885.Date: 21 Décembre 1873Reference: 657985i- Pictures
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A doctor's front door, with a chimney sweep, in the snow. Chromolithograph by John Leighton ("Luke Limner").
Leighton, John, 1822-1912.Reference: 25361i- Pictures
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A doctor's front door, with a chimney sweep, in the snow. Drawing by John Leighton ("Luke Limner").
Leighton, John, 1822-1912.Reference: 25360i- Pictures
Building: an interior perspective of a hallway, showing stairs and interior fittings. Etching by W. A. Beever, 1850, after S. H. Brooks.
Date: 1850Reference: 44293i- Books
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A rich cabinet, with variety of inventions, unlock'd and open'd, for the recreation of ingenious spirits : Being receits and conceits of several natures, and fit for those who are lovers of natural and artificial conclusions. As also variety of recreative fire-works both for land, air, and water. And fire-works of service, for sea and shore. Whereunto are added divers experiments in drawing, painting, arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, and other parts of the mathematicks. Together with several curious receits of great use, collected out of Alexis, Mizaldus, Wecker, &c. / By John White a lover of artificial conclusions.
White, John, -1671Date: 1689