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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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Parks and politics in Brixton’s past and present

Gentrification is creeping along Railton Road, but racial inequality still lingers in memories of the 1980s, and in the continuing lack of green-space access.

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Remote romance and the common cold

Getting creatively romantic due to a virus sounds all too contemporary, but our archives show what socially distanced seduction looked like seven decades ago.

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Celebrating our soft toys

After cuddling a teddy bear cured her insomnia, Elspeth Wilson was inspired to speak to four other autistic and disabled adults, who praise the roles soft toys play in their lives.

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  • Stop illegal poisoning of our wildlife : a joint campaign by government and other concerned organisations / prepared by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food for the agriculture departments, with the Department of the Environment and the Nature Conservancy Council, as part of the Campaign against the illegal poisoning of wildlife.
  • Stop illegal poisoning of our wildlife : a joint campaign by government and other concerned organisations / prepared by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food for the agriculture departments, with the Department of the Environment and the Nature Conservancy Council, as part of the Campaign against the illegal poisoning of wildlife.
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