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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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Permission to recover

When it comes to illness, sometimes the end is just the beginning. Gavin Francis argues why being given permission to recover is so important.

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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War

In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.

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Do good mothers make good democracy?

To be psychologically fit for democracy, one distinguished paediatrician argued that you need a ‘good enough mother’ – and that we must acknowledge the bad side of our feelings.

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  • A father considers whether he needs another child: family planning in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health & Social Welfare, ca. 1994.
  • A despondent father sits surrounded by his large family: family planning in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health & Social Welfare, ca. 1994.
  • A contented mother breastfeeds her baby in a hospital bed tended by a nurse: promoting benefits of breastfeeding in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health & Social Welfare, ca. 1994.
  • A man hugging a woman and raising her from the floor representing an advertisement for the 8th course on AIDS education for students at the Instituto Marqués de Santillana on 13 December 1996; organised by the Centre de Estudios Sociales Aplicados [Center of Applied Social Studies] and the Gobierno de Cantabria Consejeria de Sanidad, Consumo y Bienestar Social [Government of Cantabria, Department of Health, Consumption and Social Welfare]. Colour lithograph by Michael Emberly, 1996.
  • Liverpool Food and Betterment Association. Taking out food to the sick poor.
  • Letter: Princess Mary of Teck recommens a patient to a charity
  • A woman tells her friend how she pretended to be poor and got free accommodation at the Hospital Lariboisière for 40 days. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • Annual report of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales.
  • Annual report of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales.
  • The destitute wait for welfare assistance; an old man is told by an official that he will have to come back in eight days. Colour reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
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