Sarah Gaitley
- Date:
- 2012-2013
- Reference:
- OH1/C
- Part of:
- Thalidomide: An Oral History
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Sarah Gaitley is a UK thalidomider whose parents were closely involved in the early battles for compensation, despite their own poor education. She believes that stress from this time caused her father to have serious health problems. She also talks movingly about bullying at school and her struggle to find a job. Sarah is in a stable long-term marriage with two sons, one of whom is autistic. She continues to be an active member of the Thalidomide Society as well as holding disability awareness workshops through her local church. Parts 1 and 2 of the interviews took place in Sarah’s home in Bracknell on 15 November 2012. Part 3 took place in Sarah’s home on 24 January 2013.
Publication/Creation
2012-2013
Physical description
6 audio files
Copyright note
These recordings have been licensed by the Wellcome Trust for public use under Creative Commons Attribution-non commercial-Share Alike 3.00 UK. This means that anyone based in the UK can share and remix the material, as long as it is for non-commercial purposes. Credits, where given, should be to the library at Wellcome Collection, London. (c) Wellcome Trust.