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.
- 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.
- Article
Making sunstroke insanity
Medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey takes a closer look at sunstroke and mental illness, and how, in the late 19th century, they connected at the crossroads of colonial science and the idea of whiteness.
Catalogue
- Books
Eugenics and the war.
Date: 1914- Books
Eugenics and consanguineous marriages / by Anthony M. Ludovici.
Ludovici, Anthony M. (Anthony Mario), 1882-1971.Date: 1933- Books
Eugenics, academic and practical / by Professor R.A. Fisher.
Fisher, Ronald Aylmer, Sir, 1890-1962.Date: 1935- Books
Eugenics: Galton and after / by Sir Charles Galton Darwin.
Darwin, Charles Galton, Sir, 1887-1962.Date: 1952- Books
Eugenics and society / by Julian S. Huxley.
Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975.Date: 1936
Events
- Discussion
Marie Stopes’ Eugenics, Feminism and Birth Control
- Captioned
- British Sign Language
- Discussion
Passing Down with Larry Achiampong and David Blandy
Part of What We Pass On
- British Sign Language
- Speech-to-text
- Hearing loop