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Sully was a hospital, not a sanatorium, and was the last of several
institutions and clinics to be established for the provision,
treatment and abolition of TB by the King Edward VII National
Memorial Association and it was desbanded after the National Health
Service came into effect in 1948. Memory is like buried treasures.
Sometimes you discover long forgotten worlds. Here I chronicled
life inside Sully, an Art Deco building on the coast near Cardiff,
a state-of-the art hospital designed to offer a more humane way of
treating those with TB, in contrast to the traditional harsh
regimes of sanatoriums based on isolation, and fresh air. "A
fascinating insight into life and death at a TB hospital in South
Wales - from a patient's perspective. At times hilarious, poignant
and shocking but compelling throughout." Chris Holme, historian and
journalist. The author had published several non-ficton books
including "The Children of Craig-y-nos" (co-authored with Dr Carole
Reeves), and "Paolozzi Revealed".
THIS 88 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: What We Hear In
Music: A Course Of Study In Music Appreciation And History, by Anne
Shaw Faulkner. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN
1419168053.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1913 Edition.
In July 1996, Edinburgh College of Art offered a Masterclass with
the Italian-Scottish sculptor, Eduardo Paolozzi. He particularly
wanted to run this course in his home city. Although born in Leith,
the eldest son of Italian immigrants, Paolozzi left Scotland after
studying at Edinburgh College of Art to pursue further studies in
London and to establish an international reputation as a sculptor.
Plans for two previous classes elsewhere had fallen through. The
selection process chose 17 students with widely different
backgrounds. Plunged into ten days of unconventional tutoring, each
found widely differing responses. Paolozzi asked the members of the
class to keep a diary of their time with him. Ann Shaw, a former
journalist with The Glasgow Herald, documented her days and
recorded scenes of chaos and progress. Her unabridged account is
illustrated throughout with some of the photographs she took as the
appointed 'official' class photographer. Paolozzi is seen as human,
vulnerable, gracious and rude, inspiring and shy.
Be it poetry, prose or meanderings on the page, words are the voice
of our spirit, an expression of our soul, a way to join together in
our humanity. May this small voice of mine be a help to someone
else, somewhere else, in this world.
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Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
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hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
THIS 112 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: What We Hear In
Music: A Course Of Study In Music Appreciation And History, by Anne
Shaw Faulkner. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN
1419168053.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
THIS 88 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: What We Hear In
Music: A Course Of Study In Music Appreciation And History, by Anne
Shaw Faulkner. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN
1419168053.
Craig-y-nos Castle, on the edge of the Brecon Beacons in South
Wales, was the home of the world famous opera singer, Adelina
Patti. After her death in 1919, it became a tuberculosis
sanatorium, mainly for children and young adults. The 'Children of
Craig-y-nos' project was begun in 2006 by Ann Shaw who had spent
four years there from the age of nine to thirteen. The launch of
her blog (www.craig-y-nos.blogspot.com) to collect the memories of
ex-patients and staff was so successful that within a year over a
hundred stories and 1200 photographs, mostly taken by the children
themselves, had been contributed. There followed three photographic
exhibitions, radio programmes, a reunion at Craig-y-nos Castle, and
a Lottery grant to produce this book. But despite a romantic
location, this is not a fairy tale. TB affected the whole community
- physically, socially and emotionally. It was the disease never
spoken about except in hushed whispers. Craig-y-nos was called a
hospital but it had all the hallmarks of a prison for sick
children. Even at a distance of fifty or sixty years, some people
broke down when reliving deeply buried memories. Others were unable
to talk at all but communicated entirely though e.mail. A few
remember physical and sexual abuse by staff. Stomach wash-outs
terrified toddlers. Use of restraint by tying children to cot and
bed railings was justified by over-stretched staff but criticized
by hospital inspectors. Even keeping five-year-olds in high-sided
cots could be interpreted as a form of imprisonment. The physical
isolation of Craig-y-nos was another. Only one young woman admits
to successful escape although several teenagers and children made
abortive bids for freedom. Although this is an historical study, TB
is not a disease of history. The World Health Organization in 1993
declared TB a public health emergency. An estimated 8.8 million
people were diagnosed with TB in 2005 and 1.6 million died of it.
But however difficult it becomes to control tuberculosis both
locally and globally, one thing is certain. Those infected will
never again be isolated from the rest of society because history
has shown that policing infectious diseases is neither workable nor
humane. Ann Shaw was born in Crickhowell, Powys, and worked as a
journalist on newspapers in London, Lancashire, Yorkshire and
Edinburgh before joining the Glasgow Herald as a Feature Writer. In
1997, she enrolled as a mature student at Glasgow School of Art in
order to fulfil a lifelong ambition to be an artist. She now lives
in Bridge-of-Allan, Scotland. Carole Reeves is the Outreach
Historian, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine,
University College London. She develops projects designed to
further public interest in the history of medicine, and helps
others to do so.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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