Stories
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Busting myths about turkey-baster babies
The popular idea of sex-free, turkey-baster-led conception has been around since the 1970s. Christine Ro goes beyond the utensils drawer to find out if it’s ever really happened.
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Desperate housewives and suburban neurosis
Discover how a pioneering health centre replaced housewives’ supposedly empty home lives with a social space that encouraged healthy child rearing.
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Between two summers
As Michael Malay tends his allotment, absorbing all the sensations of his surroundings, he finds the repetition of work calms the mind.
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The empty bungalow
Grandma’s unsteady piles of stuff have been dismantled and dispersed. From an empty bungalow, Georgie Evans makes a plea for hoarding behaviour to be better understood.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
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Kitchen in the 1920s
Date: 1920-1929Reference: RET 1/8/3/7/1Part of: The Retreat Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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Kitchen Files
Date: 1932 - 1937Reference: RET/4/3/2/2Part of: The Retreat Archive
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Kitchen File
Date: 1910 - 1915Reference: RET/4/3/2/1Part of: The Retreat Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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Kitchen in the mid 20th century
Date: Mid 20th centuryReference: RET 1/8/3/7/2Part of: The Retreat Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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Kitchen in the mid 20th century
Date: 1964Reference: RET 1/8/3/7/3Part of: The Retreat Archive
