Stories
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The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
- Book extract
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.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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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.
Catalogue
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Report on the transport of British prisoners of war to Germany. August-December, 1914.
Great Britain. Government Committee on Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War.Date: 1918- Books
Report on the treatment by the enemy of British prisoners of war behind the firing lines in France and Belgium : with two appendices.
Date: 1918- Archives and manuscripts
Family Planning Association
Family Planning AssociationDate: c.1930-c.2000sReference: SA/FPA- Archives and manuscripts
Morrison and Hobson Families
Morrison, Robert, 1782-1834.Date: 1807-1963Reference: MSS.5827-5852 & 7127- Archives and manuscripts
Fell, Dame Honor Bridget (1900-1986)
Fell, Dame Honor Bridget, 1900-1986Date: 1919-1988Reference: PP/HBF