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Articles Written by Club Members

An further 9 articles, previously printed in the club's Suppliers Directory, are available for members only in the Suppliers Directory area.

• The First Tall Club in the World
• Height Restriction: To Stop or Not to Stop
• Are you a tall person, or a person who happens to be tall? Maybe it's just A Question of Identity.
• "Why does everyone assume that I'm part of the club just to find a relationship?" is a question often asked by both men and women -- Why Can't We Just be Friends? Phil Heinricy ponders the point.
• Below is a series of four articles written by one of our members charting his progress with regard to his height from childhood to the present day. It may make you think, it may bring back some memories for you. Most of us have experienced something along similar lines in many respects, so it proves above all else that you are not alone in what you may be feeling, or have felt in the past.

  Perhaps this series of articles should become a standard text, to be included in every teacher training course?

  Part 1: The Unseen Abuse
  Part 2: Thoughts From Along the Road to Self-Development
  Part 3: Learning to Fly
  Part 4: Hey World, this is ME!

Articles from Around the World (articles open in a new window)

Articles About or Mentioning the Club

• Club members gather to find solace in heightist world (16^th anniversary party in Surrey). The Guardian, August 2007.
• Love is in the air for 13ft 7in couple. Daily Mail, February 2007. Love is in the air for tall couple (shorter verison of same article). The Sun, February 2007.
• 'Big' Job Proves A Tall Order For Our Reporter (15^th anniversary party in Nottingham). This Is Nottingham, August 2006.
• Club's Tall Story (15^th anniversary party in Nottingham) and scan of cartoon from the same edition of the Nottingham Evening Post. This Is Nottingham, August 2006.
• Invasion of the tall people (Europatreffen 2005 in Edinburgh). Scotsman.com, May 2005.
• Things are looking up at Tall Club (Europatreffen 2005 in Edinburgh). Scotsman.com, May 2005.
  
• Eye witness: Make mine a large one, says tallest man (11^th anniversary party in Waltham Abbey). The Independent, August 2002.
• Meet the High Achievers (10^th anniversary party in Sheffield). Bradford Telegraph & Argus, August 2001.
• I Loved and Lost the Girl of My Dreams. Scan of article from Woman Magazine, June 2001.
• Little 'n' Large. Bradford Telegraph & Argus, June 2001.
• Standing Up for Tall People. BBC News, April 1998.

Other 'Tall' Articles

• Scientists discover height gene. BBC News, September 2007.
• America Loses Its Stature as Tallest Country. Washington Post, August 2007.
• Ukrainian is world's tallest man. BBC News, August 2007.
• World's tallest man meets the smallest. Telegraph, July 2007.
• Seven-footer's grown too big for his boots. Portsmouth Today, May 2007.
• Airbags can raise the risk of injury. Globeandmail.com, May 2007.
• 7ft 7in Neil's tallest in Britain. The Sun, March 2007.
• Plenty of room for Mike on city buses + video version. Bradford Telegraph & Argus, January 2007.
• World's tallest man saves dolphin. BBC News, December 2006.
• Success Is Relative, and Height Isn’t Everything. New York Times, November 2006.
• Pakistani claims asylum because she's seven feet tall. Daily Mail, October 2006.
• The top 10: Sporting beanpoles. The Sunday Times - Sport, October 2006.
• The Dutch Are the World's Tallest People. WTOP News, September 2006.
• Home of the 'Yorkshire giant' up for sale. Daily Mail, August 2006.
• My, haven't we grown! Daily Mail, August 2006.
• Fundraiser walks across Mersey. BBC News, August 2006.
• World's tallest woman starts treatment in Shanghai. Reuters UK, June 2006.
• Tall girl 'bullied' in chatroom. BBC News, February 2006.
• Teenager's hoop dreams come true. BBC News, November 2005.
• Restaurant food bill is tall order for girl customer. NorthantsNews.com, October 2005.
• Height prediction tool devised. BBC News, October 2005.
  
• Taller women are more career-driven. Scotsman.com, October 2005.
• Humber crossing after 1,000 years. BBC News, August 2005.
• Man too tall for air traffic job. BBC News, July 2005.
• Tall pair fail to raise the roof. BBC News, July 2005.
• Conservative MP 'is tallest ever'. BBC News, June 2005.
• Taller babies earn more later on. BBC News, February 2005.
• The giant car test. Scan of article from The Independent, November 2004.
• Women with bigger feet are lost soles. Star-Telegram (Texas, USA), August 2004.
• How tall can a human grow? The Guardian, Life section, May 2004.
  
• 'Gulliver' gets new shoes. The Sun, March 2004.
• Giant Ukrainian reaches for record. BBC News, March 2004.
  
• The High and the Mighty. US News, August 2003.
• Yes, size matters. Reproduction of article from The Times on Australian website 'You'.
• Love is in the air... if the height is right. Scan of article from The Sunday Times, March 2003.
• Tall men's club open its doors to women. About a tall club in India. Ananova, January 2003.
• Britons stand tall, if slightly heavy, in Europe. The Guardian, August 2002.
• Second Tallest Man has Biggest Hands. BBC News, February 2002.
• World's Tallest Man is Living in London and a follow-up article the following day Size Matters to Hussain. The Sun, February 2002.
• Suicide of Bullied Pupil & reader's letter about the article. The Mirror, November 2001.
• Stand Up for Your Height. BBC News, July 2001.
• Tall Men and Slim Women 'Earn More'. BBC News, November 2000.
• Too Tall For a Woman? The Times, July 2000.
• Tall Guys Get the Girls. BBC News, January 2000.
• Tall Men: Does Size Matter? BBC News, January 2000.
• Tallest Man Elevates Exercise. BBC News, December 1999.
• Tall Tales: New Approaches to the Standard of Living. Oberlin College (Ohio, USA) Alumni Magazine, May 1999.
• World's Tallest Man Aims for NBA. CNN, September 1998.
• Too Tall to Work? and a followup article A Tall Story. BBC News, August 1998.
• World's Tallest Man Dies. BBC News, July 1998.
• A Tall Story for our Time: In the rise and rise of modern mankind, scientists are discovering that height bears a clear relationship to healthiness and social well-being. Time Magazine, October 1996.

Videos

The internet is full of height-related videos, especially at YouTube. Searching for the generic term 'tall' gets over 15,000 hits. Some more interesting videos can be found by searching for 'tallest man', 'tallest woman' and even 'tall club'.

• TCI Convention 2007. Shot in Portland, Oregon, USA, July 2007.
• Europatreffen 2007 and dancing at the Gala Ball. Freiburg, Germany, May 2007.

Books

The books detailed below feature a tall character that is a major part of the story. Each book links to Amazon.co.uk to provide more information, including other versions of the story such as an audio book or DVD of the animated cartoon. The list is in alphabetical order.

The BFG, by Roald Dahl. The BFG is a big, friendly giant who spirits a child out of bed one dark night. Fortunately, this giant really is friendly, but his countrymen in the land of giants are inveterate child-eaters. Can the child enlist the aid of his kidnapper in stopping the nightly massacre?

Jack and the Beanstalk. Jack inadvertently grows a beanstalk and climbs up it to visit the giant's castle in the clouds. The giant, however, isn't very glad to see him...

The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets, by Eva Rice. Set in the 1950s in an England still recovering from the Second World War, this is the enchanting story of Penny and her eccentric family at the start of the rock 'n' roll era. Penny is growing up and longing to fall in love, but she also has to cope with her increasingly demanding mother and brother, a crumbling ancestral home, a severe shortage of cash, and the beautiful green eyes of her friend Charlotte's handsome cousin Juno.

Monday's Child, by Louise Bagshawe. Fed up with being downbeat and dowdy, 5'11" tall Anna decides to chase her dreams, and, with a little help from her friends, embarks on a madcap scheme to get just what she's after.

The Smartest Giant in Town, by Julia Donaldson. A heartwarming children's picture book about a giant who is kind to everybody.

Stand Tall, by Joan Bauer. Because he is 6'3½" tall, everyone expects 12-year-old Tree to be a star basketball player. With the help of his Vietnam veteran grandpa and his friend Sophie, Tree finds his own way to stand tall.

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