Stories
- Article
Milk trails round Euston
Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.
- Article
Disability, education and prejudice
In the 1960s and 1970s, thalidomide survivors had to fight for a proper education. If they weren’t brought up in institutions, they were often viewed as objects of curiosity, encountering verbal and sometimes physical abuse, both at school and in the world beyond.
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How I cured my fear of vomiting
Emetophobia ruled every waking moment of Alex’s life. Until he came to realise he couldn’t live that way any more.
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The hell of hay fever
After years suffering in silence, David Jesudason finds speaking out about his pollen allergy gives him hope for a future where his hay-fever symptoms are under control.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
William Moodie, 'Mental hygiene - preventive measures in childhood', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine
Date: 1935Reference: PP/ADD/C/3/14Part of: Robina Addis (1900-1986): archives- Archives and manuscripts
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C Macfie Campbell, 'The sub-normal child - a study of the children in a Baltimore school district' (National Committee for Mental Hygiene)
Date: 1917Reference: PP/ADD/K/3/1Part of: Robina Addis (1900-1986): archives- Archives and manuscripts
Burke, N.H.M. and Miller, E. (1929) "Child mental hygiene - its history, methods and problems". British Journal of Medical Psychology 9(3), 218-242.
Date: 1929Reference: PP/LOW/E/19Part of: Margaret Lowenfeld- Archives and manuscripts
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Sex education for people with disabilities - mental/physical
Date: 1966 - 2001Reference: SA/FPA/C/E/16/6/11Part of: Family Planning Association
- Pictures
- Online
A man wearing the same red striped shirt in numerous public engagements relating to public hygiene including swimming and standing on a crowded bus representing an advertisement for ways in which you cannot contract AIDS; a poster sponsored by Unicef. Colour lithograph by Adprint, ca. 1998.
Date: [1998?]Reference: 677348i