Stories
- Article
Can isolation lead to manipulation?
Military-funded researchers wanted to know if isolation techniques could facilitate brainwashing. One neuroscientist suggested that it might improve our own control over our minds.
- 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
Families fighting for justice
In 1962 a group of parents whose children had been affected by thalidomide began a decades-long battle in the law courts, the media and Parliament in order to win fair justice for all thalidomide survivors.
- Article
London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Fund Raising for the FPA: Correspondence and associated paperwork
Date: 1979-1981Reference: SA/FPA/C/A/7/3/1Part of: Family Planning Association- Archives and manuscripts
Fund Raising
Date: 1979-1981Reference: SA/FPA/C/A/7/3Part of: Family Planning Association- Archives and manuscripts
Fund Raising
Date: 1929-1975Reference: SA/CRC/LPart of: Cancer Research Campaign, formerly British Empire Cancer Campaign- Archives and manuscripts
Fund Raising Sub-Committee
Date: Sep 1956-Mar 1969Reference: SA/SMO/D.4/2Part of: Society of Medical Officers of Health- Archives and manuscripts
Fund-Raising Committee minutes and papers
Date: 1976Reference: SA/ASH/B/6/2Part of: Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)