Stories
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The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
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The hidden history of homesickness
Gail Tolley delves into the history of homesickness and discovers that its rich past holds a clue to how we view the experience today.
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Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
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Female masturbation and the perils of pleasure
Dr Kate Lister exposes the brutal 19th-century ‘cures’ for women who indulged in masturbation.
Catalogue
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Cerebral tumour : history and diagnosis / by T. McCall Anderson. Operation for its removal / by George Buchanan. Pathology / by Joseph Coats.
Anderson, McCall, 1836-1908.Date: [1891]- Archives and manuscripts
Development and history of Cephalosporin
Date: 1950s-1990sReference: PP/NHE/C/7/2Part of: Heatley, Norman George, OBE (1911- 2004)- Archives and manuscripts
Art in Madness - Early Patient Artwork
Date: 1843-c.1867Reference: DGH1/7/3/1Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
Beckenham Photograph Library - Negatives & Finding Aids
Date: c1945-c1996Reference: WF/M/I/BPart of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Reference material 'Vol. XII' Pathology: Jacobson - Ziehen
Date: c.1900-1940Reference: PSY/SPE/2/24Part of: Spearman, Charles Edward (1863-1945)