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Homes for the hives of industry

By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.

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Wonder years

The confusion and secrecy surrounding his condition seriously affected Chris’s mental health, blighting his teenage years. But somehow he began to hope and plan for the future.

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Born different

For Chris North, being born intersex in the 1940s meant his many childhood hospital visits, tests and operations were not explained or discussed. As he reveals, doctors encouraged strict secrecy.

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Ways appear

While his sense of body shame meant the personal side of his life was unfulfilled, Chris’s career was rewarding. His own childhood experiences gave him profound empathy for the children he worked with.

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  • Playground of the Home and Colonial Infant School Society, London. Wood engraving, c. 1840.
  • Crossley Orphan Home and School, Halifax, Yorkshire. Wood engraving by Walmsley, 1865, after W.G. Smith after Paull & Ayliffe.
  • William Hunter: his home and anatomy school in 16 Great Windmill Street, London, England. Photograph by Grove Son and Boulton after a watercolour.
  • Organization of nursing : an account of the Liverpool Nurses' Training School, its foundation, progress, and operation in hospital, district, and private nursing / by a member of the committee of the Home and Training School ; with an introduction and notes by Florence Nightingale.
  • A boy is caught by a shopkeeper and threatened with a stick as punishment for breaking a window. Coloured lithograph after J.R. Barfoot.
  • Home and Colonial Training College, London. Etching.
  • The grammar school in Grantham, Lincolnshire, attended by Isaac Newton. Engraving, ca. 1820.
  • The residence of Sir Isaac Newton on the corner of Orange Street and St. Martin's Street, London. Engraving by C.J. Smith, 1837.
  • Nepal; Sherpa children of the Khumbu, 1986
  • Text: The Organization of Nursing in a Large
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