Stories
- Photo story
Obesity and Britain’s boys
Six young men and six experiences of being overweight. Find out how these boys and their loved ones feel about this stigmatising issue.
- Article
Can our sexual desires be transformed?
In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. One found that it couldn’t – and his discoveries led to a change in the law.
- Article
How online dating can make us lonely
The packed diary of an internet dater doesn’t necessarily denote fun, companionship and love. Find out what Christina Patterson learned on her internet-dating odyssey.
- Article
The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
Catalogue
- Journals
Report - Food Investigation Board.
Great Britain. Food Investigation Board.- Books
Reports to the Local Government Board : I. On the bleaching of flour and the addition of so-called "Improvers" to flour / by Dr. J.M. Hamill. II. - On the chemical changes produced in flour by bleaching: by Dr. G.W. Monier-Williams.
Hamill, J. M.Date: 1911
- Ephemera
- Online
Purchaser's shopping card / Ministry of Food.
Date: 1919
- Ephemera
- Online
The preservation of tomatoes / Ministry of Food.
Date: [1951?]
- Ephemera
- Online
R.B.12 (Abr.) / Ministry of Food.
Date: [between 1950 and 1959?]