Stories
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The family food of a kebab van man
Melek Erdal celebrates the physical and mental resilience of her father Yusuf, forged by isolation and dislocation, and reinforced by the distinctive cuisine of his home country, Turkey.
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Searching for a place to call home
Wherever she’s lived, Tanya Perdikou has rarely felt at home, and numerous moves have perpetuated a sense of disconnection. But signs from nature offer powerful moments of connection.
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Belonging and why we long for it
Tanya Perdikou’s upbringing emphasised conventional respectability, but other influential family members embraced the bohemian life. Caught between two sets of values, she questions where, if anywhere, she fits in.
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Why we no longer keep our dead at home
Today in the UK we rarely sit with, touch, or perhaps even see our loved ones after they’ve died. Past practices were very different and, Claire Cock-Starkey argues, were more helpful for those grieving.
Catalogue
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Did the Catholics always have larger families? : religion, wealth and fertility in rural Ulster before 1911 / Cormac Ó Gráda.
Ó Gráda, Cormac.Date: 1984- Books
Evaluation of Dais Training Programme in Tamil Nadu and Kerala / by C. K. Chacko, S. Rajamanickam.
Chacko, C. K.Date: 1992- Pictures
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A woman and three chidren are sitting by the side of a track with a basket and flagon nearby. Lithograph by T. Fairland.
Date: 1840Reference: 33190i- Pictures
A family round a table with a young woman feeding her baby with her mother preparing a meal. Etching by Ch. Courtry after L. Lhermitte.
Lhermitte, Léon Augustin, 1844-1925.Reference: 27006i- E-books
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Women and the family in rural Taiwan
Wolf, Margery.Date: 1972