Stories
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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.
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The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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The family food of a kebab van man
Melek Erdal celebrates the physical and mental resilience of her father Yusuf, forged by isolation and dislocation, and reinforced by the distinctive cuisine of his home country, Turkey.
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Abstract of the answers and returns made pursuant to an act, passed in the first year of the reign of His Majesty King George IV, intituled, "An act for taking an account of the population of Great Britain, and of the increase or diminution thereof" : M. DCCC. XXI [1821].
Great Britain. General Register Office.Date: 1822- Books
The General Household Survey : introductory report / an interdepartmental survey sponsored by the Central Statistical Office.
Date: 1973- Books
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A table of mortality for the metropolis, shewing the number of deaths from all causes registered in the Week ending Saturday, the 11th January, 1840-1849. Annual series 1-10.
Great Britain. General Register Office.Date: 1840-9- Books
Young people's sexual health : the National Chlamydia Screening Programme : report / by the Comptroller and Auditor General.
Date: 2009- Journals
Annual report and accounts : incorporating: Forestry Commission Great Britain/England Accounts and Forest Enterprise Agency Accounts / Forestry Commission Great Britain/England.
Great Britain. Forestry Commission.Date: 2000-