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The fairy bod-mother

The ball is for every body.

  • Article

Do good mothers make good democracy?

To be psychologically fit for democracy, one distinguished paediatrician argued that you need a ‘good enough mother’ – and that we must acknowledge the bad side of our feelings.

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My mother, and metaphors of a pandemic

A pandemic. Two members of one family, living thousands of miles apart. And months of calls and messages that helped them grow closer.

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A portrait of me with my mother

A series of portraits with stand-in mothers helped Camilla Greenwell to process her grief, and then to question whether our photograph albums are ever really honest.

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  • "The Highland Nurse" after Landseer from The Mothers.
  • Mothers holding their sick children waiting to consult a physician. Lithograph by K. Kollwitz, 1920.
  • EPEMERA: To mothers only: for nursery use: F
  • Mothers and nurses play with sick children on New Years Day. Wood engraving by H. Harral after M.E. Edwards.
  • Report on the physical welfare of mothers and children.
  • Report on the physical welfare of mothers and children.
  • Report on the physical welfare of mothers and children.
  • A school for mothers / by Evelyn M. Bunting [and others].
  • A school for mothers / by Evelyn M. Bunting [and others].
  • A school for mothers / by Evelyn M. Bunting [and others].
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Mary Toft, Mother of Rabbits

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