Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
Do good mothers make good democracy?
To be psychologically fit for democracy, one distinguished paediatrician argued that you need a ‘good enough mother’ – and that we must acknowledge the bad side of our feelings.
- Article
The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.
- Book extract
The give and take of caring
Kate Mosse argues that how we define ‘care’ matters, and explores the reciprocity of caring and being cared for.
Catalogue
- Digital Images
- Online
Child Welfare, incubator
- Books
Child welfare councils (Denmark, Norway, Sweden) / League of Nations, Child Welfare Committee.
League of Nations. Child Welfare Committee.Date: 1937- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
'Child Welfare through the Ages'
Date: 1954Reference: WA/HMM/EX/F.16Part of: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library- Books
Child Welfare Information Centre : summary of the legislative and administrative series of documents of the Child Welfare Information Centre published in 1938.
Date: 1939- Books
Child welfare in relation to the family : some aspects of the problem; proceedings of the World Congress, 1954.
World Child Welfare Congress (1954 : Zagreb, Croatia)Date: 1955