Stories
- Article
Disability, education and prejudice
In the 1960s and 1970s, thalidomide survivors had to fight for a proper education. If they weren’t brought up in institutions, they were often viewed as objects of curiosity, encountering verbal and sometimes physical abuse, both at school and in the world beyond.
- In pictures
Responses to Brook’s sex education guides
Brook Advisory Centres provided relatable sex-education information to young people, but their popular material sometimes resulted in criticism from politicians and the media.
- In pictures
How an animation educated the army
In a 1940s cartoon intended to persuade US troops to take malaria medication, the makers pitted a clodhopping soldier against a wily mosquito. If only Private SNAFU had followed the government’s advice.
- Article
Desperate housewives and suburban neurosis
Discover how a pioneering health centre replaced housewives’ supposedly empty home lives with a social space that encouraged healthy child rearing.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
"Subcommittees: aims and objectives"
Date: September 2000-January 2001Reference: SA/PHY/B/3/4Part of: The Physiological Society- Archives and manuscripts
Made to Measure Courses
Date: 1981 - 1989Reference: SA/FPA/C/D/4Part of: Family Planning Association- Books
Shy radicals : the antisystemic politics of the militant introvert / Hamja Ahsan.
Ahsan, Hamja, 1981-Date: [2017]- Archives and manuscripts
Raven John - Education, Values and Society: The Objectives of Education and the Nature and Development of Competence
Date: 1977Reference: DGH1/10/1/26Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
FPA Image and identity papers/workplans
Date: 1984 - 1990Reference: SA/FPA/C/G/1/2/3Part of: Family Planning Association