Stories
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
- Article
The island of unclaimed bodies
In New York, those who live and die on the extreme edges of society are buried on an isolated island, often forgotten and unmourned. But recent legal changes aim to reduce stigma and restore their dignity.
- Article
The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
- 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.
Catalogue
- Books
The future growth of world population / United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
United Nations. Department of Economic and Social Affairs.Date: 1958- Books
Measures policies and programmes affecting fertility with particular reference to national family planning programmes / United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
Date: 1972- Books
Training for social work : third international survey / United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
Date: 1958- Books
Training for social work : fourth international survey / Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations.
United Nations. Department of Economic and Social Affairs.Date: 1964- Books
World contraceptive use 1998 / United Nations, Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division.
Date: 1999