Stories
- Article
The joy of playing hide-and-seek with rats
Playing hide-and-seek with lab rats has shown scientists that joy can be a great motivator for learning and social interaction – and not just for rats.
- Book extract
My important, ridiculous nose
The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.
- Article
The tradesman who confronted the pestilence
The City of London, 1665. As the Great Plague hits the capital, John New faces a deadly dilemma.
- Book extract
Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Rats
Date: Mid to late 20th centuryReference: GC/97/E.2/5Part of: McCance, Robert Alexander (1898-1993), and Widdowson, Elsie May (1908-2000)- Archives and manuscripts
Rats
Date: 1944Reference: GC/97/E.2/1Part of: McCance, Robert Alexander (1898-1993), and Widdowson, Elsie May (1908-2000)- Archives and manuscripts
Rats Papain Experiment I
Date: Mid to late 20th centuryReference: GC/97/E.2/4Part of: McCance, Robert Alexander (1898-1993), and Widdowson, Elsie May (1908-2000)- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Rats
Date: 7 Dec 1938Reference: HALDANE/5/8/1/22Part of: Haldane Papers- Archives and manuscripts
Rats
Date: 1930Reference: SA/BMA/F.94Part of: British Medical Association