Stories
- Article
Fantastic beasts and unnatural history
Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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Cataloguing Audrey
Work begins in earnest to restore order to the archive Audrey Amiss kept of the minutest happenings in her life. Like detectives, the archivists search for subtle clues to chronology in the mass of materials.
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How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence re barrier contraceptives (spermicides)
Date: 1974 - 1986Reference: SA/FPA/C/F/1/5/6Part of: Family Planning Association- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence re barrier contraceptives (condoms)
Date: 1978 - 1988Reference: SA/FPA/C/F/1/5/3Part of: Family Planning Association- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence re barrier contraceptives (spermicides)
Date: 1969 - 1975Reference: SA/FPA/C/F/1/5/5Part of: Family Planning Association- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence re barrier contraceptives (caps)
Date: 1970 - 1988Reference: SA/FPA/C/F/1/5/1Part of: Family Planning Association- Archives and manuscripts
Gynaecological effects
Date: 1963 - 1987Reference: SA/FPA/C/E/16/2/19Part of: Family Planning Association