Stories
- Article
The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
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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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Robinson Crusoe and the morality of solitude
Robinson Crusoe, fiction’s most famous castaway, was certainly isolated, but did he suffer the intrinsically modern affliction of loneliness?
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Letters from the Free German League of Culture in Great Britain to J B S Haldane
Date: Jun 1942 - Jul 1942Reference: HALDANE/4/21/6/1Part of: Haldane Papers- Archives and manuscripts
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Interim Report on International Economic Cooperation
Date: 1944Reference: HALDANE/4/8/1/6Part of: Haldane Papers- Archives and manuscripts
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Notes on Economic Policy and Production
Date: 9 Jun 1946Reference: HALDANE/4/8/1/24Part of: Haldane Papers- Archives and manuscripts
Clark, John. A. - Drug Addiction in Great Britain Today with Special Reference to Prognosis
Date: 1963Reference: DGH1/6/18/43Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Books
Labour conditions in war contracts : with special reference to Canada, Great Britain and the United States / International Labour Office.
Date: 1943