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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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Befriending heavy breathers

Read the fascinating story behind the rare manual that helped volunteers on one of Britain’s first free telephone helplines to deal with masturbating callers.

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Healthy scepticism

Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.

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  • A full dustbin with the lid lifted off; representing the danger of food poisoning through flies and bins. Colour lithograph, ca. 1964.
  • Prevention of food poisoning by covering hand infections with a plaster, avoiding touching food, and keeping hands clean. Colour lithograph, ca. 1963.
  • The use of handkerchiefs to prevent flu and other diseases. Colour lithograph, ca. 1950 (?).
  • Cleanliness in the washing up of dishes and leaving them to dry on a rack. Lithograph, 196-.
  • A nurse, advertising hospital open days. Process print, ca. 1960.
  • The use of handkerchiefs to prevent against flu and other diseases. Colour lithograph, ca. 1950 (?).
  • Prevention of venereal diseases: the feet of a man standing on the letters VD on a blue ground are approached by the feet of a woman who places the toes of one foot on the letters VD. Colour lithograph, ca. 1964.
  • Prevention of food poisoning by cooling hot meat and keeping cold meat covered. Colour lithograph, ca. 1965.
  • An old man on a bicycle; advertising an award for care of elderly people in Wales. Colour lithograph, 1964.
  • An old woman and a visitor in a living room, and two old men in a garden; representing the need for care of elderly people in Wales. Lithograph, ca. 1960.
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