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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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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Living with less for spiritual gain
Today, a minimalist lifestyle is trumpeted as a route to happiness. Find out what religious ascetics from history and modern proponents of the spartan-looking home can teach us.
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Menstruation, magic and moon myths
Why do stories cloaking periods in magic and mystery persist? Pragya Agarwal argues against myth-making and for inclusive menstrual education, grounded in fact.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
"GAS: training group church and GP life - Jane Abercrombie and HJH Home"
Date: 1958Reference: SA/GAS/B/5/49Part of: Group Analytic Society- Books
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The adolescent in the family : a study of personality development in the home environment; report of the Subcommittee on the function of home activities in the education of the child / E.W. Burgess, PH.D., chairman, White House conference on child health and protection.
White House Conference on Child Health and Protection (1930).Date: [1934], ©1934- Books
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Cares about the nurseries. Two brief discourses. The one, offering methods and motives for parents to catechise their children while yet under the tuition of their parents. The other, offering some instructions for children, how they may do well, when they come to years of doing for themselves. [Three lines from Luther]
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.Date: 1702- Books
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Early piety, illustrated and recommended, in several discourses: by the Rev. George Jerment, Minister Of The Gospel, Bow-Lane, Cheapside.
Jerment, George.Date: M.DCC.XCVIII. [1798]- Books
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Sacred history selected from the Scriptures, with annotations and reflections, suited to the comprehension of young minds: ... By Mrs. Trimmer, ...
Date: 1782-85