Stories
- Article
Can our sexual desires be transformed?
In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. One found that it couldn’t – and his discoveries led to a change in the law.
- Book extract
The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
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Finding consolation in social isolation
Feeling isolated and anxious during the lockdowns of the last year, Tanya Perdikou found solace in reconnecting to her past and reaching out to neighbours in the present.
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The quest to breed gifted children
If you had the chance, would you choose a genius baby?
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Propaganda leaflet calling upon Communists in Malaya to surrender
Date: 1950sReference: RAMC/1985/9Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Books
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Rebuilding Poland : workers and Communists, 1945-1950 / Padraic Kenney.
Kenney, Padraic, 1963-Date: 2012- Books
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The old social classes and the revolutionary movements of Iraq : a study of Iraq's old landed and commercial classes and of its Communists, Baʻthists, and Free Officers / Hanna Batatu.
Batatu, Hanna, 1926-Date: [1978], ©1978- Books
The National Health Service : in England and Wales / Julian Tudor Hart.
Hart, Julian Tudor.Date: [1970?]- Books
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Peasants and communists : politics and ideology in the Yugoslav countryside, 1941-1953 / Melissa K. Bokovoy.
Bokovoy, Melissa K. (Melissa Katherine), 1961-Date: [1998], ©1998