Stories
- Article
Tracing the toxic story of tear gas
Investigating tear gas – from factory to Black Lives Matter protest – Imani Jacqueline Brown uncovers a toxic legacy where pollution, violence and racism are intimately entwined.
- 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.
- Article
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.
- Article
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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Birth Control Investigation Committee
Date: 1928-1931Reference: SA/EUG/L.64Part of: Eugenics Society- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Birth Control Investigation Committee
Date: 1928-1932Reference: SA/EUG/L.63Part of: Eugenics Society- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Birth Control Investigation Committee
Date: 1928-1931Reference: SA/EUG/L.62Part of: Eugenics Society- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Birth Control Investigation Committee (BCIC)
Date: 1927-1939Reference: SA/FPA/A13/5Part of: Family Planning Association- Archives and manuscripts
Birth Control Investigation Committee (BCIC)
Date: 1927-1932Reference: PP/CPB/C.1Part of: Blacker, Carlos Paton FRCP (1895-1975)