Stories
- Article
The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
- 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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Society of Medical Officers of Health
Society of Medical Officers of HealthDate: 1856-1998Reference: SA/SMO- Archives and manuscripts
National Survey of the Health and Development of Children (NSHD)
Date: 1946-1998Reference: SA/PIC/F/7Part of: Population Investigation Committee- Archives and manuscripts
Population Investigation Committee
Population Investigation CommitteeDate: 1879-2010Reference: SA/PIC- Books
Report of the Committee for Scientific Inquiries in relation to the cholera-epidemic of 1854.
Date: 1855- Books
- Online
Report of the Committee for Scientific Inquiries in relation to the cholera-epidemic of 1854.
Date: 1855