Stories
- Article
Can isolation lead to manipulation?
Military-funded researchers wanted to know if isolation techniques could facilitate brainwashing. One neuroscientist suggested that it might improve our own control over our minds.
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Mary Morris-Knibb, a woman of courage and ability
A Jamaican election banner reveals the story of a pioneering women’s rights campaigner who continues to inspire 80 years on.
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The healing power of breathing
The healing powers of different breathing methods are said to help with a range of health challenges, from asthma to PTSD. Effie Webb traces their spiritual origins and explores the modern proliferation of breathwork therapies.
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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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Birth Control International Information Centre
Date: 1932-1987Reference: PP/EPR/F.1Part of: Eileen Palmer: collection of material on birth control, including papers of Edith How-Martyn and Olive Johnson- Archives and manuscripts
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Birth Control International Information Centre: 1933 Conference on Birth Control in Asia
Date: 1933-1935Reference: PP/EPR/F.1/2Part of: Eileen Palmer: collection of material on birth control, including papers of Edith How-Martyn and Olive Johnson- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Birth Control International Information Centre: publications and newsletters
Date: 1930sReference: PP/EPR/F.1/1Part of: Eileen Palmer: collection of material on birth control, including papers of Edith How-Martyn and Olive Johnson- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Birth Control International Information Centre
Date: 1933-1937Reference: SA/EUG/D.14Part of: Eugenics Society- Archives and manuscripts
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Birth Control International Information Centre: Special Efforts Group: Plan for Book
Date: 1934Reference: PP/EPR/F.1/3Part of: Eileen Palmer: collection of material on birth control, including papers of Edith How-Martyn and Olive Johnson