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Print on the bottom-left corner says: “Edith Kruger, Inkameep Indian Day School, Age 12 years.” Art was an escape for many students in the residential school system.

(A broadside calls Highlander 25th anniversary attendees Martin Luther King Jr., Abner W. Berry, Aubrey Williams and Myles Horton the “‘Four Horsemen’ of racial agitation.” Rosa Parks appears on the far left)

Sharing a cuppa

New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller used the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. to help create a superagency that would transform the state’s cities and suburbs. It didn’t last long.

Detail from Three Men Sit Smoking and Drinking at a Barrel Table

The Dosser’s Bible was assembled throughout the late 1950’s and early 1960s by the founder of the Simon Community. Anton Wallich-Clifford. The Community is based in Camden and from 1963 operated houses for the homeless going way beyond the provision offered at the time to work with homeless people beyond the reach of existing provision. Many major homelessness charities including St Mungos and the Cyrenians came out of the Simon Community

Most Canadian women had gained the right to vote by the end of the First World War, but women in Quebec had to wait until 1940 or longer to cast a ballot in their own province.

Dr. Metzner collaborated with Dr. Leary and Richard Alpert on The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead (1964), one of the core texts of the emerging psychedelic movement.

Briefly, Chinese knowledge platforms comparable to JSTOR are stealthily redacting their holdings, and globalizing historical narratives that have been sanitized to serve present political purposes.

A time of great hardship, the Second World War became a consequential episode in the history of Soviet childhood policies. The growing social problem of juvenile homelessness and delinquency alerted the government to the need for a comprehensive child protection programme. Nevertheless, by prioritizing public order over welfare, the Stalinist state created conditions that only exacerbated the situation, transforming an existing problem into a nation-wide crisis.

The People’s History of the NHS allows you to help us research what the NHS means and how it has shaped our lives since its creation. It is part of our bigger academic project investigating the cultural history of the NHS, funded by the Wellcome Trust. Collecting personal stories and memories about the NHS is one of our central objectives.