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A one-way passage from India: Hackney Museum explores fate of colonial ayahs: Indian women were often employed to care for British children, but some were abandoned on reaching UK.
Interview with ( Read more... )

What I read
Episode 10 of Tremontaine Season 4.
Jonathan Kellerman, Night Moves (2018). Alex 'Smug' Delaware was a bit less annoying in this one: but it still rather conformed to the usual pattern.
Nicola Griffith, So Lucky (2018) - not sure how one classifies this - not, she emphasises in the afterword, the auto-fiction it was originally marketed ( Read more... )

Have been noticing on Twitter people remarking that spectacles are not a stigmatised assistive technology and neither is the need for them -
Well, maybe that is so now, but I think we have had some discussions in comments in this here venue about the Victorian resistance to letting people with myopia wear glasses rather than struggle and try to ( Read more... )

What Katy Did thrilled Jacqueline Wilson when she was growing up but the attitudes to disability left something to be desired. And that’s why the author of Tracey Beaker and Hetty Feather has written a modern version. I didn’t want any sudden unlikely miracle cures for my Katy. She’d have to learn to lead a very different life now. She wouldn’t ( Read more... )

Noticed in the lift at the Tube station: RNIB campaign to get people to read books for the blind/partially sighted (recorded, not directly, I think) on the National Day of the Blind.

Um, er. If I were dependent upon audiobooks for my reading, I think I should prefer them read by people who were trained and competent, rather than Any Old Person In ( Read more... )

Riffing off thoughts from a locked post on my reading list.

And other posts hither and yon over a significant period about the extraordinary ordeal-like nature of postgraduate education (I think with specific reference to the US system - the challenges with the UK system are rather different in my experience), which seems to me excessively ( Read more... )

I don't know whether there was one precipating event or a coincidental confluence of things, but people have been posting hither and yon about the assumption that anything that helps you deal with a physical or mental condition is a 'crutch', which the Truly Strong and Determined person will endeavour to do without.

As people have already commented ( Read more... )

Cross dressing male escorts northampton: search string which apparently reached my website. Boggled hedgehog is boggled.

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Today's ODNB Life of the Day:( Ida Freund )

I suppose that 'not a happy bunny' is a phrase that is going to recur in reviews of Alison Uttley's diaries. We have already recently been alerted that she was not a sweet cuddlesome old lady, and she does sound fairly toxic, but probably not particularly above the average for noted children's authors. (And being me and interested in women in ( Read more... )