Stories
- Article
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.
- Long read
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.
- Article
Acid and the sexual psychonauts
How LSD fuelled one woman’s journey of sexual self-discovery in the late 1950s.
- Article
Remote romance and the common cold
Getting creatively romantic due to a virus sounds all too contemporary, but our archives show what socially distanced seduction looked like seven decades ago.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Papers on the Wave Engine
Date: 1871-1872Reference: GALTON/2/1/2/3Part of: Galton Papers- Archives and manuscripts
Potter - Pyke
Date: 1961-1983Reference: PP/MLV/C/16/8Part of: Vogt, Dr Marthe Louise (1903-2003)- Books
A classified bibliography on the history of scientific instruments / by G.L'E. Turner and D.J. Bryden.
Turner, Gerard L'Estrange.Date: 1997- Archives and manuscripts
Wellcome Building: Film Unit Wellcome Laboratories of Tropical Medicine (WLTM) Laboratories Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine Visitors / Friends
Date: c.1930-c.1980Reference: WF/M/I/PR/W3Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
Second bibliography of books, pamphlets, catalogues and articles on the subject of, or pertaining to, historical studies on scientific instruments / Scientific Instrument Commission.
International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science. Scientific Instruments Commission.Date: 1985