Stories
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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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How my wheelchair changed my life
A young woman diagnosed with a disabling condition found her world shrank without the mobility aids she needed to get outside. Finally facing the stigma around using a wheelchair transformed her everyday life.
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The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
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Naked, not nude
Classicist Caroline Vout argues that it’s time to take the dust covers off the Ancient Greeks and Romans, and to encounter their bodies not nude, but naked.
Catalogue
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Physical education in the primary school / prepared by the Ministry of Education and The Central Office of Information.
Date: 1952-1953- Books
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The theory of physical education in elementary schools / by Thomas Chesterton.
Chesterton, Thomas.Date: [1904?]- Books
Syllabus of physical training for schools, 1919.
Date: 1919- Books
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Handbook of physical training for public elementary schools / by A.G.A. Street and V.E. Gooderson.
Street, A. G. A.Date: 1910- Books
Physical education for boys / edited by G.W. Hedley and G.W. Murray.
Hedley, G. W. (Gerald William)Date: 1936