Stories
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Backstroke to the future
Now one of the most popular forms of exercise, the health-giving properties of swimming have not always been recognised. Dive into a gallery that charts the course from water as site of danger to a space of health.
- Photo story
Transitioning and the family album
“It’s really hard to describe to people how you know you’re a man when those ways of describing masculinity to me aren’t true. You need to find your own.”
- 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
How the Peckham Experiment inspired my fiction
Find out how an unruly mass of archive material from a 1930s radical health centre has inspired brand new writing.
Catalogue
- Books
Swimming pools / by the editorial staff of Sunset Books.
Date: 1959
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Swimming pools : their construction; mechanical installation; water supply; heating the water; various types of installations adapted to different conditions; with thirty illustrations and charts / by Jno. K. Allen.
Allen, John K. (John Kermott), 1858-Date: 1907
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Studies on the sanitation of swimming pools / [by] Wallace A. Manheimer.
Manheimer, Wallace A., 1887-Date: [1914]- Ephemera
Venez nager au bassin couvert, 151 rue de Dison, (Tél : 11190), Verviers : confort, agrément, séchoirs électrique, pédicure, baignoirs pour dames et messieurs.
Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]
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A ball with a message indicating that AIDS is not transmitted in public swimming pools; a poster from the America responds to Aids advertising campaign. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 667398i