
socialwork100
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socialwork100
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Advisors, Advocates & Activists: A Century and more of Social Work in Edinburgh. A Wellcome Trust funded project at Edinburgh University Archives.
















Back in the main library yesterday to re-shelve a few conserved items. Delighted to see this again, removed from its cracked glass frame and cleaned - a letter from social reformer Charles Booth, dated 1906, to Miss McKnight, Secretary of Glasgow Charity Organisation Society.

Back in the main library yesterday to re-shelve a few conserved items. Delighted to see this again, removed from its cracked glass frame and cleaned - a letter from social reformer Charles Booth, dated 1906, to Miss McKnight, Secretary of Glasgow Charity Organisation Society.




Work related #anxiety is nothing new. These entries in the mental health survey from 80 years ago illustrate the impact the #workplace can have on physical and #mentalhealth. In particular working in mines often triggered traumatic experiences for men who had served in the #war.














