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Lowell Offering | American Antiquarian
From the Lowell Offering, an anonymous writer describes a weeklong schedule of an average mill girl’s routine. Every day, after early morning breakfast until seven at night, the mill girl spends her time working at the machine while conversing with fellow operatives.
Social Welfare History Project |
Social Welfare History Project | Library of Congress
Miss Loula Dunn, Commissioner of Welfare for the State of Alabama
1940’s women demonstrate.
The Conversation
An a la carte approach to dieting emerged in the 60s.
Gay at Cal, 1954
Hans Selye: The Physiology and Pathology of Exposure to Stress (Montreal, 1950)
Social History
Even though male homosexuality was decriminalised in Britain in 1967, it still occupied a legal grey area in which it could be classified as an ‘unlawful’ act contrary to the public good. This was because of the revival of a common law offence known as ‘conspiracy to corrupt public morals’ which was applied to those gay men who were advertising in the new gay press for friends and lovers.
NIH: NLM
In the United States, efforts to articulate the relationship between the care of the body and the state of the mind, morals and emotions date back almost 200 years.
Social History
Government Memo on the Disability Allowance Scheme
https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/beyond-the-pleasure-principle/i-21/
Cream, Disraeli Gears (1967) Album Cover
The practice of incarcerating children in specialist facilities in England and Wales has a long pedigree, dating back to the establishment of Parkhurst Prison in the Isle of Wight in 1838.
