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How wigs help children handle hair loss

For young people who lose their hair during cancer treatment, a wig can make them feel normal again. Carmel King photographs some of the processes and people involved with a charity providing beautiful human-hair wigs for kids.

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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War

In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.

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Doctor in the house

A house is not always a home – sometimes it’s impermanent, impersonal. But other aspects of the itinerant life can be the source of a sense of home.

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Eugenics and the welfare state

Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.

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  • 'Mentally defective school-children'.
  • A day school for children; Godwin, 1867
  • University Children's Hospital, Vienna: children learning geography in the hospital school. Photograph, 1921.
  • University Children's Hospital, Vienna: children learning mathematics in the hospital school. Photograph, 1921.
  • Three children on their way to school with their packed lunches in school bags. Colour lithograph, 195-.
  • Children caring for plants in a school garden, southern India
  • Grammar School, Rochdale, Lancashire: children playing in the front. Tinted lithograph by J.K. Colling after J. Clarke.
  • A school-children's dental clinic in Berlin: some children being treated and others waiting, all are girls. Photograph.
  • Tooth-brush drill at school, England: children pose with tooth-brushes in mouth in a school building. Photograph, ca. 1920.
  • Chiengmai Leper Asylum, Thailand: children outside the grass-roofed temporary school for uninfected children of leprosy patients. Photograph, 1921.
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