Hyperlinks inhibit knowledge sharing.
The history sections of this site are heavily hyperlinked in an early 1990s “underline all the verbs” style, and although it’s very useful for me to take notes like this, I’m pretty sure it’s going to be useless for anyone who wants to learn from it.
Sarah Westwood is a case in point - there’s too much information, on too many pages, for anyone to easily get the whole picture. Seems our brains are much better at consuming linear narratives than they are factlet dust.
I’m sure the UX guys figured all this out decades ago.
Right now I’m still in research mode, but the difficult bit is going to be taking all those disconnected facts and extracting a coherent story from them. I feel there’s at least two stories there - one that foregrounds class, and one foregrounds mental health. And Sarah wasn’t the only woman doing this.