Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
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.
- 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
Fees, funding and the NHS
In the 1950s, dramatic political battles over NHS charges brought down a government. But public confidence in the service still grew.
Catalogue
- Books
Higher education / report of the Committee appointed by the Prime Minister, under the chairmanship of Lord Robbins, 1961-63.
Great Britain. Committee on Higher Education.Date: 1963- Books
Neurodiversity in higher education : positive responses to specific learning differences / edited by David Pollak.
Date: 2009- Books
Higher education : the lessons of experience.
Date: [1994], ©1994- Books
Efficiency gains or quality losses? : how falling investment affects higher education's capacity to contribute to the UK's economic success.
Date: 1996- Books
Academic work : the changing labour process in higher education / edited by John Smyth.
Date: 1995