Stories
- Article
How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
- Article
The mystery of the malignant brain
In 1884 a neurologist successfully used a patient’s symptoms, plus a new kind of map, to locate a brain tumour. Discover how his best-laid plans for treatment worked out.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
- Article
The pill, autism and me
Realising that her contraceptive was having a negative effect on her mental health, Catriona Reid saw her concerns dismissed by doctors. As an autistic woman on the pill, she was not an anomaly, but has often been made to feel like one.
Catalogue
- Books
Small and beautiful : small day care centres for older people / Averil Osborn.
Osborn, Averil.Date: [1990]- Books
A tale of two centres / Gerry Davis.
Davis, Gerry.Date: [1990]- Books
The telephone & older people : Telephone contact networks / David Gordon.
Gordon, David.Date: [Between 1990 and 1992?]- Books
Alcohol and older people : a leaflet prepared for those caring for older people / Scottish Council on Alcohol, Age Concern Scotland.
Date: [1985?]- Ephemera
Old age ephemera. Box 1, Services and support.