Dr Angela Stienne | The Lyme Museum

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When life as you knew it is turned upside down…

For as long as I can remember, there has always been something wrong within my body, or something making me uncomfortable, whether it was...

Evangelia Valliou

Looking through art

The 21st century has brought about many new and exciting changes in the realm of science, technology, health, and everyday life...

Erin Becker-Boris

In the Forest

In this article, Erin Becker-Boris recounts her own story of Lyme disease, and how it is linked to her experience of higher education.

Ilenia Atzori

Let's change Endometriosis narrative

In this blog, Ilenia Atzori shares her story with endometriosis and emphasizes that the narrative about endometriosis being a women's matte

The Lyme Museum

From History to Hidden - The Asylum under the surface of Leicester University

When I began my studies at the University of Leicester, I knew nothing of the campus’s history in disability persecution. And I can’t really

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