Stories
- Article
Rebuilding my identity after a brain injury
Chris Miller talks about how a brain injury forced him to reassess his place in the world – physically, personally and socially.
- Article
Plant portraits
The beautiful and mysterious illustrations in medieval herbals convey a wealth of knowledge about the plants they portray.
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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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Performing my disability
Caroline Butterwick explores the idea of disability as performative, and the pressure to act out what we think others expect.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Shorthand
Dixon, John, 1832-1930.Date: 1889-c. 1895Reference: MSS.2172-2176Part of: Dixon, John (1832-1930)- Archives and manuscripts
Shorthand Minutes
Date: 1956-1959Reference: SA/WCP/4/3Part of: World Confederation for Physical Therapy- Archives and manuscripts
Shorthand summary of diaries, with No. 7 and No. 19 Field Ambulances on the Western Front and in Mesopotamia
Date: 1914-1919Reference: RAMC/1032/11Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Arthur Ewing's notes for Pitman's Shorthand Medical Dictionary
Arthur EwingDate: Late 1940sReference: MS.8432- Books
- Online
Short-Hand, adapted to the meanest capacity, wherein the rules are few, plain, and easy: the characters not burthensome to memory; And The Hand Shorter & more intelligible than any other extant. Together with the principles on which it is founded; also an alphabetical praxis, &c. By Henry Taplin, of Chichester, Sussex.
Taplin, H. (Henry).Date: [1760?]