Stories
- Article
Can our sexual desires be transformed?
In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. One found that it couldn’t – and his discoveries led to a change in the law.
- Article
Robinson Crusoe and the morality of solitude
Robinson Crusoe, fiction’s most famous castaway, was certainly isolated, but did he suffer the intrinsically modern affliction of loneliness?
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
- Online
Circus madness / Animal Defenders.
Animal Defenders (Campaigns)Date: 1997- Ephemera
- Online
The ugliest show on Earth / Animal Defenders.
Animal Defenders (Campaigns)Date: [1998]- Ephemera
- Online
Stop circus suffering now / Animal Defenders.
Date: [2002?]- Videos
Animal acts.
Date: 1993- Archives and manuscripts
Research Defence Society
Date: 1955-1993Reference: PP/WDP/E/1Part of: Paton, Sir William Drummond Macdonald (1917-1993), Pharmacologist