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Harry Owen-Jones Object Retrieval

Your name: 
Harry Owen-Jones
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Object Retrieval

Who is going to tell the story?

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An old toy car which used to be reported in the front page of newspaper because of destroying the health of a small boy is displayed to the public, not for the shocking history, but ironically for

The use of clinical terminology in a wider context

Your name: 
Gabrielle Gascoigne
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In the case notes accompanying the toy car pathology specimen implicated in the case of lead poisoning, the term ‘mental retardation’ is used as the original diagnosis attributed to the patient.

focus on 'Toy' car and the times

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First of all, the idea of Object Retrieval is great. It could be a little embarrassing before giving precise information of the object, but we could find the value of the object personally.

passing through

Your name: 
Duncan
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I have been passing through UCL for five years. A PhD can take some time you see. Almost completed now and you come across a routemaster in the quad. Not seen that before.

Engendered cars

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Toys can provide an insight into questions about gender. Certain objects are deemed to be as being "masculine" or "feminine".

richard ansett

Your name: 
richard ansett
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1. responding to the object.

Edinburgh lead poisoning

Your name: 
Esther Godfrey
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When I was about six (so about 1978) my mother made a television film for a current affairs programme about the high levels of lead in the water in Edinburgh, where we lived - the lead poisoning wa

Toy Car Scrap Heap

Your name: 
Madi Boyd
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What happens to old toy cars? Some, like this object end up in museums but what happens to the majority who don't make it into being saved for posterity?

Trying to fnd a sunliner in the UK!

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We tried to track down an owner with a Ford Sunliner which could visit us on the bus. Because the car was only in production for one year (1960) there aren't many around let alone in Britian.

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