Stories
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Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
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How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
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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.
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Native Americans through the 19th-century lens
The stories behind Rinehart's photographs may not be as black and white as they first appear.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
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Anthropometric Measurements of Francis Galton and William Gladstone
Date: c1884Reference: GALTON/1/2/5/2Part of: Galton Papers- Archives and manuscripts
Index: Anthropometric Laboratory Measurements
Date: c1888-c1895Reference: GALTON/2/4/18/18/2/1Part of: Galton Papers- Archives and manuscripts
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Anthropometric Questionnaire Completed by Francis Galton
Date: 1889Reference: GALTON/1/2/5/3Part of: Galton Papers- Archives and manuscripts
Notes on Eyesight, Touch and Hearing
Date: 1883Reference: GALTON/2/4/18/4/2Part of: Galton Papers- Archives and manuscripts
Butler, Harriet to Francis Galton
Date: Apr-May 1885Reference: GALTON/2/4/18/4/1Part of: Galton Papers