Stories
- Article
The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
- Article
Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
- 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.
- 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
- Journals
Annual report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education.
Date: 1910-1921- Archives and manuscripts
'A Study of Medical Education in Great Britain'
Date: 1957-1958Reference: PP/GWP/D/22Part of: Pickering, Sir George White- Journals
Annual report of the Local Government Board.
Great Britain. Local Government Board.Date: 1872-1919- Books
Education in Great Britain / W. O. Lester Smith.
Smith, W. O. Lester (William Owen Lester), 1888-1976.Date: 1956- Books
Meals for day-school children including packed dinners / Food Education Society (Great Britain).
Date: [1937?]