Stories
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The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
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Inside the Cold War mind
Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.
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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 3 ['Letter Book 3']
Date: Mar 1890 - Nov 1896Reference: WF/E/01/01/03Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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The present influence and conduct of Great-Britain impartially considered. In a letter from a foreign minister at the Hague, to Count - residing at the court of London. Faithfully translated from the original French.
Foreign minister at the Hague.Date: [1741]- Books
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Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. Appendix.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909-1913- Books
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Some considerations upon His Majesty's message; and the Dutchies of Bremen and Verden. In a letter to the Worshipful Mr. - Mayor of S- To which is prefix'd, a map of those Dutchies; and of the Rivers Elbe and Weser.
Date: [1717]- Archives and manuscripts
General Correspondence
Vane, Sir John, FRS (1927-2004), PharmacologistDate: 1973-1979Reference: PP/JRV/D/1Part of: Vane, Sir John Robert (1927-2004)