Stories
- Book extract
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.
- Article
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.
- Article
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.
- Article
Female masturbation and the perils of pleasure
Dr Kate Lister exposes the brutal 19th-century ‘cures’ for women who indulged in masturbation.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Reference material 'Vol. XII' Pathology: Jacobson - Ziehen
Date: c.1900-1940Reference: PSY/SPE/2/24Part of: Spearman, Charles Edward (1863-1945)- Archives and manuscripts
Reference material 'Vol. XII Pathology A-H': Arnold - Hutt
Date: c.1900-1940Reference: PSY/SPE/2/23Part of: Spearman, Charles Edward (1863-1945)- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence - Van Heyningen, W.E. April 1959
Date: 1959Reference: PP/EBC/B.110Part of: Chain, Professor Sir Ernst Boris- Archives and manuscripts
A History of the Journal International Abstracts of Biological Sciences
Date: 1953-1973Reference: GC/266/2Part of: <i>International Abstracts of Biological Sciences</i> and <i>Archives of Oral Biology</i>- Books
The fundamental data of modern pathology : history, criticisms, comparisons, applications / by Dr. Achille Monti ; translated from the Italian by John Joseph Eyre.
Monti, Achille.Date: 1900