Stories
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Inside the Cold War mind
Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.
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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
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The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
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Fleeing fear, defying prejudice
As teenage refugee Sedra Al-Yousef grappled with rebuilding her life and education in another country, at the same time she used compassion and humanity to demolish populist anti-refugee myths.
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XXXIII. Foreign and colonial systems of poor relief with a memorandum on the relief of famines in India.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1910- Books
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The present influence and conduct of Great-Britain impartially considered. In a letter from a foreign minister at the Hague, to Count - residing at the court of London. Faithfully translated from the original French.
Foreign minister at the Hague.Date: [1741]- Books
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Sweden. Report on the working of the Gothenburg licensing system since the year 1876.
Date: 1890- Books
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List. No. I. Note transmitted by Mr. Wickham to M. Barthelemy, with translation. - Dated Berne, March 8, 1796. ...
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.Date: 1796]- Books
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The pocket companion to the British pharmacopoeia : comparing the strength of its various preparations with those of the United States and other foreign pharmacopoeias, to which are added not official preparations and practical hints on prescribing / by Peter Wyatt Squire.
Date: 1904