Stories
- 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
Dealing with the dead after a nuclear attack
Cold War-era predictions of death on a vast scale became routine. But the British authorities were less prepared to dispose of the bodies.
- 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.
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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
Committees, working groups and task groups 1984-1985
Date: 1984-1985Reference: PP/EDM/B/3/2/14Part of: Personal papers of Edith Morgan (1920-2003)- Archives and manuscripts
Committees and Councils
Date: 1931-1938Reference: PP/BED/A.2Part of: Bertrand Edward Dawson, Viscount Dawson of Penn (1864-1945)- Archives and manuscripts
Committees and Administration
Date: 1956-1963Reference: GC/177/CPart of: Fulton, Forrest- Archives and manuscripts
Committees and Consultancies
Date: 1952-1965Reference: PP/CLE/CPart of: Evans, Sir Charles Arthur Lovatt- Archives and manuscripts
Committees, Boards and Panels
Date: 1911 - 2006Reference: SA/BIO/APart of: The Biochemical Society