Stories
- Article
Drugs in Victorian Britain
Many common remedies were taken throughout the 19th century, with more people than ever using them. What was the social and cultural context of this development?
- Article
Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
- 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
- Archives and manuscripts
Clark, John. A. - Drug Addiction in Great Britain Today with Special Reference to Prognosis
Date: 1963Reference: DGH1/6/18/43Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
Communist Party of Great Britain
Date: October 1972Reference: SA/DRS/B/1/96aPart of: DrugScope- Books
- Online
The influence and development of some of the researches of Daniel Hanbury / by Frederick B. Power.
Power, Frederick B. (Frederick Belding), 1853-1927.Date: [1913]- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Letters between H Pollitt and J B S Haldane
Date: Jul 1947 - Nov 1947Reference: HALDANE/4/8/1/35Part of: Haldane Papers- Books
- Online
The palpebral and oculomotor apparatus in fishes : observations on morphology and development / by N. Bishop Harman.
Harman, Nathaniel Bishop, 1869-1945.Date: [1899]