Stories
- Article
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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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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Can our sexual desires be transformed?
In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. One found that it couldn’t – and his discoveries led to a change in the law.
Catalogue
- Books
Code of ethics for museums : ethical principles for all who work for or govern museums in the UK / Museums Association.
Museums Association.Date: [2008], ©2008- Archives and manuscripts
British Association of Occupational Therapists
British Association of Occupational TherapistsDate: 1936-1997Reference: SA/BAO- Archives and manuscripts
Strangeways Research Laboratory
Strangeways, T.S.P., 1866-1926.Date: c.1901-1999Reference: SA/SRL- Archives and manuscripts
Medact
Medical Campaign against Nuclear Weapons (f. 1980)Date: c.1955-c.2008Reference: SA/MED- Archives and manuscripts
Ronald MacKeith (1908-1977)
MacKeith, Ronald, 1908-1977.Date: 1949-1998Reference: PP/MKH