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Children in burns prevention campaigns

Whose responsibility is it to prevent accidental burns and scalds in the home? Shane Ewen’s research shows that it’s everyone’s concern.

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The quest to breed gifted children

If you had the chance, would you choose a genius baby?

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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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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.

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  • Healthy eating for children / Tesco Stores Ltd.
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  • A lady telling a gripping story to young women and children. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1785, after J. Opie.
  • An old woman is telling some children a story which they appear to be disturbed by. Engraving by H.C. Shenton after T. Stothard.
  • A family group of women and children sitting listening to a man telling a story at Christmas. Wood engraving by Dalziel after J.E. Millais.
  • A family group of women and children sitting listening to a man telling a story at Christmas. Wood engraving by Dalziel after J.E. Millais.
  • Nepal; town life in the Khumbu, 1986. A street in Namche Bazar (altitude 3446 metres). Men relax outside a store. In the mid-1980s, Nepal was rigidly patriarchical although Sherpa women had more autonomy than other groups. Women generally had limited access to markets, education, health care and local government. Malnutrition and poverty hit them the hardest, and female children were usually given less food than male children, especially during food shortages.
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