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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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Birth, babies and boxes of memories

With memories of her baby in neonatal intensive care still fresh, Erin Beeston decides to unearth the poignant objects her family kept following births, going back as far as Victorian times.

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Making sunstroke insanity

Medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey takes a closer look at sunstroke and mental illness, and how, in the late 19th century, they connected at the crossroads of colonial science and the idea of whiteness.

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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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  • Sir William White Cooper. Photograph.
  • Sir William Hale-White. Photograph.
  • William Leybourn. Line engraving by R. White, 1674.
  • William Walwyn. Line engraving by R. White, 1696.
  • William Cockburn. Line engraving by R. White after himself.
  • William Cole. Line engraving by R. White after himself.
  • William Salmon. Line engraving by R. White, 1687, after himself.
  • William Salmon. Line engraving by R. White, 1687, after himself.
  • William Salmon. Line engraving by R. White, 1687, after himself.
  • William Hunt. Line engraving by R. White, 1673, after himself.
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