Stories
- Book extract
Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
- Article
What is hysteria?
Hysteria has long been associated with fanciful myths, but its history reveals how it has been used to control women’s behaviour and bodies
- Article
Heating up and drying out
Menopause doesn’t have to signify old age, but when your body feels like it’s letting you down, it’s hard not to believe that your useful life may be over.
- Article
The life and death of Tamagotchi and the virtual pet
Discover how the 1990s craze for Tamagotchis became a flood of robotic and virtual pets, sending their owners on an emotional rollercoaster ride.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Macbeth - Magnes
Date: 1943-1985Reference: PP/MLV/C/13/1Part of: Vogt, Dr Marthe Louise (1903-2003)- Books
The punisher's brain : the evolution of judge and jury / Morris B. Hoffman.
Hoffman, Morris B., 1952-Date: 2014- Books
How the brain evolved language / Donald Loritz.
Loritz, Donald, 1947-Date: 1999- Books
The rough guide to the brain / by Barry J. Gibb.
Gibb, Barry J.Date: 2012- Books
[Box of papers given at the Symposium on the history and philosophy of knowledge of the brain and its functions, London, 1957].
Symposium on the History and Philosophy of Knowledge of the Brain and its Functions (1957 : London, England)Date: [between 1950 and 1959?]