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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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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The quest to breed gifted children
If you had the chance, would you choose a genius baby?
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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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Ireland. William Plunket, of Portmarnock in the county of Dublin, gentleman, - - - - - - appellant. The Right Honourable Henry Lord Viscount Kingsland, of the Kingdom of Ireland, Francis Lord Baron of Athunry, of the same Kingdom, and Thomas Wakely, Esquire, - - - - - respondents. The appellant's case.
Plunket, William, of Portmarnock.Date: 1750]- Books
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An Act to enable Sir William Hamilton, Knight of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, his heirs and assigns, to make and provide quays, docks, piers, and other erections; and to establish a market, with proper roads and avenues thereto respectively, within the manor or Lordship of Hubberston and Pill in the county of Pembroke.
Great Britain.Date: 1790]- Books
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An act for impowering trustees to cut down and sell timber standing and growing upon the estate of inheritance of Thomas James Lord Bulkeley, Viscount Cashels, in the Kingdom of Ireland, an Infant, in order to raise Money for discharging Incumbrances affecting the said Estate; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1754]- Books
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An act for extinguishing certain rights of common in the parish of Lutcham, alias Litcham, in the county of Norfolk.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1765]- Books
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An act to subject and charge a competent part of the manor and lordship of Tottenham Hall, otherwise Tottenham Court, in the county of Middlesex, and of the lands and hereditaments thereunto belonging, with the payment of a perpetual yearly rent-charge to Doctor Richard Browne and his successors; and for divesting the Fee-Simple and Inheritance of the said Premises out of him and his Successors, and for vesting the same in Trustees to the Use of Charles Fitz Roy, Esquire, and Ann his Wife, and their Issue, with such Powers and Authorities as therein are mentioned.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1768]