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Audrey and her family

In working on Audrey Amiss’s archive, Elena is getting closer to understanding her. But the way her niece and nephew remember Audrey adds essential detail to the picture.

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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.”

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Ancestry, privacy and the family tree

Wanting to find out more about her Jamaican grandfather, Tanya Perdikou contemplates DNA testing. But first she has to consider the potential impact of unexpected results.

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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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  • The fall; expelled from Eden, Adam and Eve raise a family and set to work. Engraving by Scotin, c. 1765.
  • "How can I prepare to bury my daughter when I also have to prepare to bury my son-in-law and granddaughter?" : the affects of HIV and AIDS on families and the work of the Family Support Network / The Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • "How can I prepare to bury my daughter when I also have to prepare to bury my son-in-law and granddaughter?" : the affects of HIV and AIDS on families and the work of the Family Support Network / The Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • "How can I prepare to bury my daughter when I also have to prepare to bury my son-in-law and granddaughter?" : the affects of HIV and AIDS on families and the work of the Family Support Network / The Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • "How can I prepare to bury my daughter when I also have to prepare to bury my son-in-law and granddaughter?" : the affects of HIV and AIDS on families and the work of the Family Support Network / The Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • "How can I prepare to bury my daughter when I also have to prepare to bury my son-in-law and granddaughter?" : the affects of HIV and AIDS on families and the work of the Family Support Network / The Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • "How can I prepare to bury my daughter when I also have to prepare to bury my son-in-law and granddaughter?" : the affects of HIV and AIDS on families and the work of the Family Support Network / The Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • "How can I prepare to bury my daughter when I also have to prepare to bury my son-in-law and granddaughter?" : the affects of HIV and AIDS on families and the work of the Family Support Network / The Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • "How can I prepare to bury my daughter when I also have to prepare to bury my son-in-law and granddaughter?" : the affects of HIV and AIDS on families and the work of the Family Support Network / The Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • The gold-headed cane / by William Macmichael, M.D.; edited with explanatory and illustrative notes and an essay on William Macmichael, M.D., his life, his works, and his editors, by Herbert Spencer Robinson; containing the original illustrations of the 1828 edition and hitherto unpublished portraits of the Macmichael family and a reproduction of William Macmichael's handwriting.
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