Stories
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Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
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Yoga gets physical
Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.
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Eugenics and the welfare state
Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.
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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.
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Economic History
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British population change since 1860 / prepared for the Economic History Society by Rosalind Mitchison.
Mitchison, Rosalind.Date: 1977- Journals
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Irish economic and social history : journal of the Economic and Social History Society of Ireland.
Date: 1974-- Books
Agriculture in depression, 1870-1940 / prepared for the Economic History Society by Richard Perren.
Perren, Richard.Date: 1995- Books
The great Irish famine / prepared for the Economic History Society by Cormac Ó Gráda.
Ó Gráda, Cormac.Date: 1995, ©1989