Stories
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
- Article
The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
- Book extract
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.
- 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.
Catalogue
- Books
The coal fire : a research / by Margaret White Fishenden for the Manchester Corporation Air Pollution Advisory Board.
Fishenden, M. (Margaret White)Date: 1920- Books
Studies of nutrition : the physique and health of two African tribes / by J.B. Orr and J.L. Gilks (for the Dietetics Committee of the Economic Advisory Council).
Boyd-Orr, John Boyd Orr, Baron, 1880-1971.Date: 1931- Books
The use of performance tests of intelligence in vocational guidance : an investigation conducted for the National Institute of Industrial Psychology / by F.M. Earle [and others].
Date: 1929- Archives and manuscripts
Strangeways Research Laboratory
Strangeways, T.S.P., 1866-1926.Date: c.1901-1999Reference: SA/SRL- Books
- Online
1990 public expenditure survey ; advice of the Advisory Board for the Research Councils.
Great Britain. Advisory Board for the Research Councils.Date: [1990]