Real lives: important lessons from the childhood experiences of Harry Drabble
Historian feature
By Helen Parker-Drabble, published 6th August 2026
‘Children couldn’t have been treated like that’
Helen Parker-Drabble shows how the experiences of her father, Harry Drabble, who was hospitalised for bovine tuberculosis as a child, remain fiercely relevant for families, medical practitioners and policymakers in twenty-first century Britain...
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