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An Hour a Month: Children’s Hospital Visiting Rules Before the Platt Report
One hour, once a month: how British hospitals kept sick children apart from their parents before the Platt Report, and the boy who watched the clock.
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The Directory and the Child: what a survey of Britain’s orthopaedic institutions kept, and what it left out
A 1935 directory of Britain’s institutions for ‘crippled’ children, and the boy it would send to King Edward VII Hospital, Sheffield: what the records kept, and what they left out.
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Forgotten Children Bovine TB: Hidden History Wins Award
There is a particular satisfaction in receiving recognition for work that is not really about you. ‘Yet’ recovers the story of the forgotten children of bovine tuberculosis. Hundreds of thousands of British children were hospitalised for months, sometimes years, in the era before effective treatment existed. When I learned the book had been awarded Runner-up…
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Mary Allott Victorian Recipe Book: Domesticity as Defence
In 1860, the Mary Allott Victorian recipe book began when a twenty-four-year-old woman abandoned by her husband opened a blank notebook. Over the next fifty years, she would fill it with over 280 recipes—each one a defence against the accusation that she had lost her husband through domestic inadequacy. This recipe book sits within the…
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Epigenetics, Physiological & Psychological Inheritance and the Family Historian
Physiological and psychological trauma can affect not only the person involved but succeeding generations. Therefore, ancestral trauma can influence and shape a descendant who has no knowledge of it. This has implications for family historians wanting a deep understanding of their forebears. It can also be critical to living relatives struggling with mental health issues.
