Stories
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Can isolation lead to manipulation?
Military-funded researchers wanted to know if isolation techniques could facilitate brainwashing. One neuroscientist suggested that it might improve our own control over our minds.
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Dirt, disease and the Inspector of Nuisances
In the days when ‘bad air’ was thought to spread disease, dozens of Inspectors of Nuisances ceaselessly struggled against the perils of dirt – both visible and invisible.
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To write in golden photographs
When Rachel Genn’s brother disappeared, a newspaper article led the family to his bedside. But the accident he’d barely survived was not to be the last tragedy in his life.
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Found items
Books leave their traces in our minds, but we leave traces of ourselves in books too, as these fascinating items found inside old works show.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Robert John Read and Mrs Belleville
Date: c.1906Reference: PP/GDR/G/8Part of: Dick-Read, Grantly- Archives and manuscripts
'John Read Solid Geometry. Calculus. Derby Technical College'
Date: late 1920sReference: PP/JRE/A.6-A.9Part of: John Read (1908-1993), radiobiologist- Archives and manuscripts
Photocopy of photograph and recollection of John Read, author not known
Date: 1994Reference: PP/JRE/A.3Part of: John Read (1908-1993), radiobiologist- Books
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Specification of John Read : syringes.
Read, John.Date: 1857- Archives and manuscripts
John Read (1908-1993), radiobiologist
Date: c.1930-1994Reference: PP/JRE