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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.

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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 birth of the public museum

The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.

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Eugenics and the welfare state

Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.

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  • Journal of science and the arts / Royal Institution of Great Britain.
  • Journal of science and the arts / Royal Institution of Great Britain.
  • Journal of science and the arts / Royal Institution of Great Britain.
  • Report on the cattle plague in Great Britain during the years 1865, 1866, and 1867 : with appendix, tables, and diagrams showing the progress of the disease / prepared by the Veterinary Department of the Privy Council Office.
  • The sportsman's cyclopaedia; comprising a complete elucidation of the science and practice of hunting, shooting, coursing, racing, fishing, hawking, cockfighting, and other sports and pastimes of Great Britain, interspersed with entertaining and illustrative anecdotes / by T.B. Johnson.
  • The sportsman's cyclopaedia; comprising a complete elucidation of the science and practice of hunting, shooting, coursing, racing, fishing, hawking, cockfighting, and other sports and pastimes of Great Britain, interspersed with entertaining and illustrative anecdotes / by T.B. Johnson.
  • AIDS : guidelines for electrolysists : don't die of ignorance / prepared by the Department of Health and Social Security and the Central Office of Information.
  • AIDS : guidelines for hairdressers and barbers : don't die of ignorance / prepared by the Department of Health and Social Security and the Central Office of Information.
  • AIDS : guidelines for ear piercers : don't die of ignorance / prepared by the Department of Health and Social Security and the Central Office of Information.
  • AIDS : guidelines for ear piercers : don't die of ignorance / prepared by the Department of Health and Social Security and the Central Office of Information.
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