Stories
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Celebrating our soft toys
After cuddling a teddy bear cured her insomnia, Elspeth Wilson was inspired to speak to four other autistic and disabled adults, who praise the roles soft toys play in their lives.
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How we bury our children
Following her baby daughter’s funeral, Wendy Pratt found that visiting the grave gave her a way to carry out physical acts of caring for her child. Here she considers how parents’ nurturing instincts live on after a child’s death.
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Birth, babies and boxes of memories
With memories of her baby in neonatal intensive care still fresh, Erin Beeston decides to unearth the poignant objects her family kept following births, going back as far as Victorian times.
- Interview
Inside the mind of George Vasey, co-curator of Misbehaving Bodies
Discover how curator George Vasey honoured the approaches of Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery, who mischievously subvert clichés around illness and death.
Catalogue
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A child's bedroom empty with a big flat (deflated?) teddy bear on the floor and a stuffed teddy bear seated on it, the child absent; representing oxygen deprivation in children due to the mother's smoking during pregnancy. Colour lithograph by By Heart Kommunikation AG, 199-.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999?]Reference: 730897i- Pictures
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A toddler and his teddy bear in a high chair on which are placed a carrot and an apple; representing dental hygiene. Colour lithograph after Tllley, 1965.
Tilley, Patrick.Date: [1965]Reference: 576226i- Pictures
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A family of teddy bears lying beneath blankets dreaming of enjoying healthy family activities together including going on a trip to Disneyland; advertisement for family planning and safer sex to prevent AIDS by the Office of Family Planning, Hawaii Department of Health. Colour lithograph by June Sakutori.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999] :Reference: 668667i- Pictures
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A teddy bear wearing sunglasses and drinking a cocktail with the title 'A sunshine story' and a verse below describing the rise in AIDS among expatriate Swedes. Colour lithograph by Garbergs, ca. 1995.
Date: [1995?]Reference: 676402i- Pictures
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A man's back pocket with a teddy bear and the word 'Bärenstark" [strapping] printed in blue; a safe sex advertisement by the condom makers, The Hot Rubber Company. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 674948i