Stories
- Article
Vivekananda’s journey
How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.
- 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.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
- 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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
British Social Hygiene Council
British Social Hygiene CouncilDate: 20th centuryReference: SA/BSH- Books
Démographie urbaine : XVe-XXe siècle [actes / des troisièmes Rencontres franco-suisses, Lyon, 23 et 24 avril 1976].
Date: [1977]-- Books
Women and families : an oral history, 1940-1970 / Elizabeth Roberts.
Roberts, Elizabeth, 1936-Date: 1995- Books
Communicating the history of medicine : perspectives on audiences and impact / edited by Solveig Jülich and Sven Widmalm.
Date: 2020- Books
Society, medicine and politics in colonial India / edited by Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison.
Date: 2018