Stories
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Father of the house
Stuart Evers thought he’d shaken off his family’s rigid definition of masculinity. But when he became a dad, those buried patriarchal ideas made an unexpected return.
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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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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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Yoga adapts to time and place
A yoga teacher in 1930s India inspired today’s transnational practice with his spectacular fusion of tradition and innovation.
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The order of hereditary succession to the Crown of these kingdoms, on failure of immediate heirs, wherein the right of inheritance, vested in the several English families, lawfully descended from the blood royal of Great Britain, is deduced and successively attested. Inscribed to his Majesty.
Kearsley, George, -1790.Date: 1783- Books
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The hereditary right of succession: Or, the happiness of princes enjoying their crown, by an undisputed right of inheritance, and a legal establishment. By a well wisher of peace and unity. Entered in the hall book according to order.
Well Wisher of Peace and Unity.Date: 1710- Books
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A discourse concerning inheritances in fee simple: with a kalendar of all the persons who are inheritable: ... By the Right Honourable Robert Robinson, ...
Robinson, Robert, Chief Justice of Gibraltar.Date: 1758- Books
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De successionibus apud Anglos: or, the law of hereditary descents. Shewing the rise, progress, and successive alterations thereof: And also the Laws of Descent, as they are now in Use; with a Scheme of Pedigrees, and the Degrees of Parentage and Consanguinity. First published from an original manuscript of Sir Matthew Hale, Knt. Lord Chief Justice of England. By Sir Bartholomew Shower, Knt.
Hale, Matthew, 1609-1676.Date: MDCCXXXV. [1735]- Books
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[An Essay] on the love of our country.
Date: 1769]