Stories
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Building a dream in the garden suburbs
In the late 19th century a ‘garden suburb’ promised a retreat from London’s dirt and crowds. See how this new concept was developed to appeal to the health concerns of the literary classes.
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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.
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Doctor in the house
A house is not always a home – sometimes it’s impermanent, impersonal. But other aspects of the itinerant life can be the source of a sense of home.
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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.
Catalogue
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Gardening for children with autism spectrum disorders and special educational needs : engaging with nature to combat anxiety, promote sensory integration and build social skills / Natasha Etherington.
Etherington, NatashaDate: 2012- Books
Generations gardening together : sourcebook for intergenerational therapeutic horticulture / Jean M. Larson, Mary Hockenberry Meyer.
Larson, Jean M.Date: [2006]- Books
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A proposal for employing, cloathing, and furnishing, with implements of husbandry, children, from the age of ten to sixteen; with a view to agriculture, the improvement of land, and gardening. Addressed to the Dublin Society. By Sir James Caldwell, baronet.
Caldwell, James, Sir, -1784.Date: 1770- Books
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A proposal for employing, cloathing, and furnishing, With the implements of husbandry, children, from the age of ten to sixteen; with a view to agriculture, the improvement of land, and gardening. Addressed to the Dublin Society. By Sir James Caldwell, baronet.
Caldwell, James, Sir, -1784.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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A thousand more notable things: or, modern curiosities. Viz. Divers physical receipts. Monthly observations in gardening, Planting and Grafting. To prevent diseases in children. Directions for all midwives, Nurses, and Child-Barring Women. Problems of Aristotle. A Book of Knowledge. The Art of Angling. The Art of Japanning. Rules of Health & Long-Life. Rules for Blood-Letting. To make the Face beautiful. Reasons of Thundering and Lightning. How to destroy Vermin. To order Children rightly, and to prevent Diseases incident to them. The Art of Painting in Oyl. Curious Inventions for the Ingenious to improve on. To cure all Diseases in all sorts of Cattel. With divers other Curiosities. By G. Johnson. Part II.
Date: [1706?]