Stories
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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.
Catalogue
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Learning to forget : schooling and family life in New Haven's working class, 1870-1940 / Stephen Lassonde.
Lassonde, StephenDate: [2005]- Books
Handbook for parents with a handicapped child / by Judith Stone & Felicity Taylor.
Stone, Judith.Date: [1972]- Books
Report of the Cripples' Home and Industrial School for Girls Northumberland House, 19a, Marylebone Road. (near Marylebone Church). 1910 / [Cripples' Home and Industrial School for Girls].
Cripples' Home and Industrial School for GirlsDate: 1910- Books
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Household engineering : scientific management in the home / by Mrs. Christine Frederick. A correspondence course on the application of the principles of efficiency engineering and scientific management to the every day tasks of housekeeping.
Frederick, Christine, 1883-1970.Date: 1919- Books
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Personal hygiene / ed. by Maurice Le Bosquet.
Le Bosquet, MauriceDate: 1907