Stories
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How to thrive in lockdown
Gareth Berliner shares how being a Disabled person has given him the resilience and motivation to find a new creative challenge during lockdown.
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Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
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Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars
‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?
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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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Report of the Children's Commission to the governor and legislature, January, 1915.
New Hampshire. Children's Commission.Date: 1914- Archives and manuscripts
Medical miscellany
Fretchwell, Nathaniell, fl. 1674, of St Clement Danes, Middlesex, apothecaryDate: 1662-1907Reference: MS.9276- Archives and manuscripts
Food production and self-sufficiency
Date: 1970s-1980sReference: PP/GBO/B/6Part of: Godfrey Boyle: archives