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Forum posts and comments section pieces. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.
Digital files containing copies of comments posted by Beales on various forums and article comments sections. They range in length from a couple of sentences to several paragraphs and some files contain exports of all comments posted by Beales on one site during a specific period. The comments cover numerous topics but are primarily focussed on mental health, psychiatric illnesses and treatments, drugs, and the music of the 1970s. Two files are audio recordings of Beales talking about drug taking and the police and about Sid Vicious and drug taking in the punk scene.
The exports are dated 2013 and 2014 but the rest of the files are undated and have inaccurate timestamps. The date provided has been estimated by the cataloguer.