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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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Sex work and critical campaigners

When campaigners filmed secretly in the club where she worked, exotic dancer Ella Smith felt frightened and degraded. Here she speaks out about the attack on her livelihood.

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Surviving sex work on the streets

In care at four, on the streets at nine, Charmaine has had a traumatic journey to reach life as it is now: no drugs, no sex work, looking after her mum, and enjoying her grandchildren. Here she writes honestly about her past.

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Being trans in the world of sex work

Unstable. Predatory. Risk takers. Dr Adrienne Macartney sheds stark light on the hostile and negative assumptions faced by trans sex workers.

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  • National HIV Prevention Information Service : supporting your work with up to date and accurate information on HIV / HIV Project, Health Education Authority.
  • National HIV Prevention Information Service : supporting your work with up to date and accurate information on HIV / HIV Project, Health Education Authority.
  • National HIV Prevention Information Service : supporting your work with up to date and accurate information on HIV / HIV Project, Health Education Authority.
  • National HIV Prevention Information Service : supporting your work with up to date and accurate information on HIV / HIV Project, Health Education Authority.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: an Argentinian exhibit relating to manual skills education, showing classroom seating, carpentry tools and student work. Photograph, 1904.
  • Don't worry about what you'll pick up at work : none of these will give you HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS ... / Health Education Authority ; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
  • Don't worry about what you'll pick up at work : none of these will give you HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS ... / Health Education Authority ; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
  • The female sign incorporating the faces of five women who work in the AIDS field with a list of list of HIV-related conditions common in women by the Maricopa Area Health Education Center. Colour lithograph by Jeff Dorgay and Creative Syndicate.
  • The art of midwifery improv'd. Fully and plainly laying down whatever instructions are requisite to make a compleat midwife. And the many errors in all the books hitherto written upon this subject clearly refuted ... : Also a new method, demonstrating, how infants ill situated in the womb ... may, by the hand only ... be turned into their right position, without hazarding the life of either mother or child / written in Latin by Henry à Daventer ; made English ; To which is added, a preface giving some account of this work, by an eminent physician.
  • The art of midwifery improv'd. Fully and plainly laying down whatever instructions are requisite to make a compleat midwife. And the many errors in all the books hitherto written upon this subject clearly refuted ... : Also a new method, demonstrating, how infants ill situated in the womb ... may, by the hand only ... be turned into their right position, without hazarding the life of either mother or child / written in Latin by Henry à Daventer ; made English ; To which is added, a preface giving some account of this work, by an eminent physician.
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