Stories
- Article
Getting around the rules of sex education
What should we and shouldn’t we teach our teens about sex, inside and outside of the classroom?
- 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.
- Book extract
The meaning of happiness
What is happiness? Tiffany Watt Smith charts how its definition has changed over time, from chance emotion to something that can be measured and controlled.
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Family Planning Association, South Africa
Date: 1980Reference: SA/FPA/C/G/5/1Part of: Family Planning Association- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Family Planning Association: Vol II.
Date: 1948-1950Reference: SA/EUG/D.24Part of: Eugenics Society- Archives and manuscripts
Family Planning Association; INFORM factsheets
Date: 1973-1977Reference: PP/WDS/B.6/1Part of: Wendy Savage: archives (1935-)- Archives and manuscripts
Family Planning Association; family planning factsheets
Date: 1975 - 1983Reference: PP/WDS/B.6/2Part of: Wendy Savage: archives (1935-)- Archives and manuscripts
Family Planning Association; minutes and correspondence
Date: 1986-1993Reference: PP/WDS/B.6/6Part of: Wendy Savage: archives (1935-)