Stories
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Disability, education and prejudice
In the 1960s and 1970s, thalidomide survivors had to fight for a proper education. If they weren’t brought up in institutions, they were often viewed as objects of curiosity, encountering verbal and sometimes physical abuse, both at school and in the world beyond.
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Yoga gets physical
Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.
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When depression is worse than physical illness
Chronic physical illnesses can be accompanied by troubling depressive symptoms. Elly Aylwin-Foster urges doctors to treat every aspect of her condition with the same care.
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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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Report of the Board of Education Office Committee on a National Physical Training College
Date: 1937Reference: SA/RBC/C.6/2Part of: Research Board for the Correlation of Medical Science and Physical Education- Books
Report on the second British Empire and Commonwealth Conference on Physical Education at Glamorgan Training College, Barry, Wales, 11th-17th July, 1958.
British Empire and Commonwealth Conference on Physical Education 1958 : Barry, Wales)Date: [1958?]- Archives and manuscripts
Universities, Training Colleges and Polytechnics Panel
Date: 1943-1944Reference: SA/RBC/C.6/7-9Part of: Research Board for the Correlation of Medical Science and Physical Education- Books
Recreation and physical fitness for youths and men.
Date: 1937- Books
Recreation and physical fitness for girls and women.
Great Britain. Board of Education.Date: 1937