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Sheila Kitzinger

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Sheila Kitzinger

by Julia Fullerton-Batten
chromogenic print, 27 February 2006
Commissioned, 2006
Primary Collection
NPG P1128(8)

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  • Sheila Kitzinger (1929-2015), Writer, social anthropologist and birth educator. Sitter in 1 portrait.

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One of sixteen photographs from a portfolio entitled A Picture of Health. This series is part of a continuing programme of photographic commissions focusing on important areas of public life.

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Current affairs

The Loans for Peerages affair erupts after four businessmen who gave unpublished loans to the Labour Party are nominated for peerages. The scandal revealed a legal loophole: while political parties must declare all large donations, they were not required to declare loans. This led the Police to investigate whether the parties had broken the 1925 Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act, and to Lord Levy and Tony Blair.

Art and science

A year of blockbuster exhibitions including Modernism at the Victoria and Albert Museum, a Surrealism exhibition at the Haywood Gallery, Michaelangelo Drawings at the British Museum, Valezqueth at the National Gallery, Rodin at the Royal Academy, Holbein at Tate Britain, and David Hockney Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery.

International

Following the kidnapping of two Israeli Soldiers by Lebanese Hezbollah militants, Israel launches a heavy artillery attack and ground invasion on Lebanon. In response Hezbollah launched rockets into northern Israel and engaged the Israeli Defence Forces in guerrilla warfare. The conflict ended after claiming over 1500 lives - mostly Lebanese civilians - with a UN resolution calling for Hezbollah's disarmament and Israel's withdrawal of troops from Lebanon.

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Jenny Kitzinger

25 October 2018, 19:32

It is lovely to revisit this picture of my mother sitting on the side of her wonderful four poster bed, as I work on a talk about her death. Sheila was adamant that she did not want to go into hospital and wrote an Advance Decision stating that she wanted to die 'in my own bed' - and we were able to ensure a home death for her at the end. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jun/19/how-to-plan-for-a-good-death-sheila-kitzinger
Sheila's bed was part of her identity, a stage, a work place, and centre of colour and family life - the patchwork hanging at the back was something we all sewed together as children, the goddess models and birth symbols hanging from the frame were made by me as a present one year, and we five girls would often sit here with her. This picture made me smile, and remember so much about my mother - thank you.
Jenny Kitzinger (youngest daughter of Sheila Kitzinger)