Stories
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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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When the sun goes down
Despite the country’s colonial and industrial dominion, the finest minds of Victorian Britain began to fear the devastating effects of declining natural resources. Even the death of the sun.
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Milk trails round Euston
Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.
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A symbol of a lost homeland
The story of one protective amulet from Palestine reveals a complex tale. Encompassing the personal history of an influential doctor and collector, it provides a window onto dispossession and exile, and the painful repercussions that are still felt today.
Catalogue
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Report of the War Office Committee of Enquiry into "Shell-shock" (cmd. 1734) : featuring a new historical essay on shell shock / by Anthony Richards.
Great Britain. War Office. Committee of Enquiry into "Shell-shock."Date: 2004- Videos
Wilfred Owen : a soldier of the Great War.
Date: [s.d]- Books
Medical services : casualties and medical statistics of the Great War / by T.J. Mitchell and G.M. Smith.
Mitchell, T. J. (Thomas John), 1882-Date: [1997]- Archives and manuscripts
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'BW&Co, "War Blue Book of the Great Britain and European Crisis"'
Date: 1909-1914Reference: WA/HMM/CO/Ear/128Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Books
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Spies in Arabia : the Great War and the cultural foundations of Britain's covert empire in the Middle East / Priya Satia.
Satia, PriyaDate: 2008