Stories
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Father of the house
Stuart Evers thought he’d shaken off his family’s rigid definition of masculinity. But when he became a dad, those buried patriarchal ideas made an unexpected return.
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Birth, babies and boxes of memories
With memories of her baby in neonatal intensive care still fresh, Erin Beeston decides to unearth the poignant objects her family kept following births, going back as far as Victorian times.
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Cowpox, Covid-19 and Jenner’s vaccination legacy
The well-known story of vaccination pioneer Edward Jenner has at its heart his drive to make vaccines free of charge and available to all. Now his principles extend to the global campaign for a people’s patent-free vaccine for Covid-19.
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A wheelchair in the world
Five years ago, Jan Grue, author of ‘I Live a Life Like Yours’, became a father. A wheelchair user since age eight, Grue explores how parenthood helped him reimagine his relationship with his wheelchair.
Catalogue
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Fathers and sons / Howard Cunnell.
Cunnell, HowardDate: 2017- Books
Fathers and sons / by E. B. Castle.
Castle, E. B. (Edgar Bradshaw), 1897-1973.Date: 1931- Books
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Indago astrologica: or, a brief and modest enquiry into some principal points of astrology : as it was delivered by the fathers of it, and is now generally received by the sons of it. / By Joshua Childrey of Feversham in Kent.
Childrey, J. (Joshua), 1623-1670Date: 1652- Books
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The British sleepers; Or, the Sons of Britannia Sleeping, While She, in a Discourse in three Parts, laments the Ruin which, without a Change in their Conduct, must be inevitable; provides against the Evils, to which their unthinking Fathers consented in the last Century; and sends her Tears, as the Messengers of her Grief, to melt them into a Concern for themselves, that France may not spread her Triumphs as Monuments of their Disgrace, that will be more lasting than Monuments made of Brass, or Marble. Part II.
T. W.Date: [1749]- Books
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The British sleepers; Or, the Sons of Britannia Sleeping, While She, in a Discourse in three Parts, laments the Ruin which, without a Change in their Conduct, must be inevitable; provides against the Evils, to which their unthinking Fathers consented in the last Century; and sends her Tears, as the Messengers of her Grief, to melt them into a Concern for themselves, that France may not spread her Triumphs as Monuments of their Disgrace, that will be more lasting than Monuments made of Brass, or Marble. Part I.
T. W.Date: [1749]