ORAL history is the practice of gathering, preserving and interpreting the voices and memories of people, communities and participants

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Sally Marlow reveals the changing faces of ADHD and why it remains so contentious.

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, is one of the most common developmental disorders, with an average of 9 per cent of US children between the ages of five and seventeen diagnosed each...

Sally Marlow reveals the changing faces of ADHD and why it remains so contentious.

Investing in people’s future mental health, based on the key socioeconomic factors underlying it, is the only way to address this rising problem.

Without historical interrogation of past and present fisheries management, governors and their sponsors often fall into the trap of replicating and re…

Whether loved or loathed, school meals have been a fixture of British childhood for generations. Heather Ellis and Isabelle Carter discuss what the history of school meals can tell us about broader social and cultural change.

This voucher entitles the bearer to come on one radical history tour in 2025 - choose from the following dates, times and tours: Saturday Feb 8th...

Picture the scene: an asylum for women in Claresholm, AB, Canada, in the summer of 1933. Southern Alberta was in the grip of the Great Depression, but this town was also in the midst of the Dust Bowl, so-called because the parched topsoil was easily whipped by the wind into filthy clouds that blocked out the sky. Yet at the asylum, water was still being prioritised for a specific therapeutic purpose. Three women were placed in a tub and wrapped up head to toe in saturated blankets. They stayed in these watery cocoons for 3 hours.