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Punx Picnic. Settle Walk, Hulme, 1996.

“If it takes a bloodbath, let’s get it over with.”– California Gov. Ronald Reagan

Demonstrators and students protesting the war in Vietnam are seen at the plaza in front of Columbia University’s Low Memorial Library in New York, April 27, 1968. Policemen line the steps of the library, one of five buildings that protesters continue to occupy during the sit-in.

Eileen Younghusband’s diaries, written between 1917-1930, cover a transitional period in her life, beginning with her wartime childhood in an upper middle class home at Wimbledon and ending as she started her career as a tutor at the London School of Economics. They cover her ambivalent relationship with post-war ‘High Society’, growing interest in politics and issues of social justice, first steps towards social work (through the Whitechapel Care Committee and Bermondsey Princess Club) and education at the LSE, as well as the routine of daily life (particularly with regard to shopping, socialising and travelling).

In an interview with Daniel Denvir… Dr. Robin D. G. Kelley, Professor of History at the University of California Los Angeles, spoke about this vital history, documented in his 1990 book, Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression. The Alabama Communists and their allied organizations won major victories, but they also lost many fights and lost many lives to police and vigilantes. Hammer and Hoe reminds us that, then and today, the class struggle and fight for black freedom has never been easy. This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Above: Evicted Arkansas sharecropper who was active in the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union, now building his new home in Hill House, Mississippi.

History of Psychiatry, Ahead of Print.
We present a social-historical perspective on the evolution of the voice-hearing phenomenon in Western society. Based upon a systematic search from a selection of nine databases, we trace the way hearing voices has been understood throughout the ages. Originally, hearing voices was considered a gifted talent for accessing the divine, but the progressive influence of monotheistic religion gradually condemned the practice to social marginalization. Later, the medical and psychiatric professions of secular society were instrumental in attaching stigma to both voice hearers and the phenomenon itself, thereby reinforcing social exclusion. More recently, the re-integration of voice hearers into the community by health authorities in various countries appears to have provided a new, socially acceptable setting for the phenomenon.

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This is the first in a series of interviews celebrating Community Care’s 50th anniversary. We will be speaking to key figures who have shaped the last 50 years in social work and those who will shape it in the years to come.

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is the lead federal agency for research on mental disorders. NIMH is one of the 27 Institutes and Centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the largest biomedical research agency in the world. NIH is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Figure 6. Examples of repetitive movements and behaviour (Anthony, 1957a).

A 1968 underground explosion that killed 78 coal miners in Farmington, West Virginia (above), was a flashpoint for reform after years of fatalities and a growing awareness of black lung disease.

Suitcases once belonging to residents of a New York State mental hospital tell the stories of long-forgotten lives. Above: RL’s trunk contains not only a substantial library of volumes from Cervantes to Poe but also a manuscript that he wrote

Almost half the people displaced worldwide are under 18, yet their voices are rarely heard. This book records the experiences of children arriving in Britain from Hitler’s Europe in the 1930s to those escaping war in Ukraine in 2022. It follows the journeys of war-traumatised children from Mogadishu to Mile End and from Syria to a Scottish isle. Some followed their parents to the ‘motherland’ from the former British Empire. Others came independently to escape forced marriage or military conscription.

Figure 3. Big Flame, ‘We Won’t Pay’ Leaflet.