Stories
- Article
The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
- 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.
- 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
The healing power of the physic garden
Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Society for Provision of Birth Control Clinics. Walworth papers
Date: 1923-1961Reference: SA/FPA/A13/85BPart of: Family Planning Association- Archives and manuscripts
Society for Provision of Birth Control Clinics
Date: 1930-1961Reference: SA/FPA/A13/iiiPart of: Family Planning Association- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
May 1932 Conference arranged by the Society for the Provision of Birth Control Clinics: Birth Control Investigation Committee (BCIC) involvement
Date: 1931-1932Reference: PP/CPB/C.1/16Part of: Blacker, Carlos Paton FRCP (1895-1975)- Journals
Annual report / Society for the Provision of Birth Control Clinics.
Society for the Provision of Birth Control Clinics.- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Society for the Provisions of Birth Control Clinics
Date: 1932-1937Reference: SA/EUG/D.32Part of: Eugenics Society