Stories
- Article
The psychological impact of nuclear war
How would you hold up psychologically if a nuclear bomb was dropped? Discover the British government’s secret predictions from the 1980s.
- 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.
- Article
Booze and bad behaviour
Our love of alcohol is like a party that’s lasted nine centuries. But there are signs that the demon drink is losing its appeal.
- Book extract
Dangers inside and out
Eimear McBride reflects on the deadly consequences of misogyny in the wake of the murder of Sarah Everard and argues why advising women to simply “stay indoors” is wrong.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
"Population and Birth Control"
Date: 1932-1934Reference: PP/BED/B.2Part of: Bertrand Edward Dawson, Viscount Dawson of Penn (1864-1945)- Archives and manuscripts
Population Crisis Control Committee
Date: 1970-1976Reference: JDW/2/2/1433Part of: James D. Watson Collection- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Birth Control, Abortion, Population questions, U nmarried mothers
Date: 1920s-1970sReference: PP/CPB/K.3Part of: Blacker, Carlos Paton FRCP (1895-1975)- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
News of Population & Birth Control nos. 1-120
Date: Jan 1952-Dec 1963Reference: SA/FPA/A10/20Part of: Family Planning Association- Archives and manuscripts
'The Control of Population', Conference of Rationalist Press Association, Oxford
Date: 9 Aug 1949Reference: PP/CPB/H.1/14Part of: Blacker, Carlos Paton FRCP (1895-1975)