Stories
- 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
It’s getting mighty crowded
Mid-20th-century population-density research on mice produced a whiskered apocalypse, predicted to become the fate of humans too. But perhaps a more compassionate approach could fend this off.
- Article
The big freeze
In recent years we’ve come to realise that global heating is our biggest threat. But it’s hard to shake off the fear of a return to ice-age conditions, the predominant narrative since the late 17th century.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Company-wide Newsletters & Journals (internal)
Date: 1942 - 2000Reference: WF/M/PB/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
Hidden histories of the dead : disputed bodies in modern British medical research / Elizabeth T. Hurren.
Hurren, Elizabeth T.Date: 2021- Books
The sounding of the whale : science & cetaceans in the twentieth century / D. Graham Burnett.
Burnett, D. Graham.Date: 2012- Books
Collected papers, W.M. Court Brown.
Court Brown, W. M. (William Michael)Date: [1948-1969]- Archives and manuscripts
Tavistock Institute of Human Relations
Tavistock Institute of Human RelationsDate: 1940s-2000sReference: SA/TIH