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  • The Directory and the Child: what a survey of Britain’s orthopaedic institutions kept, and what it left out

    The Directory and the Child: what a survey of Britain’s orthopaedic institutions kept, and what it left out

    ‘Yet’: A Story of Triumph over Childhood Separation, Trauma, and Disability Disability History Family History From Helen Parker-Drabble Social history

    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.