Stories
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The sweet sound of synthetic speech
After Alex experienced a serious deterioration in his sight, he came to rely on artificial voices to help him with everyday tasks. Find out how synthetic speech came to be developed.
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The mystery of the malignant brain
In 1884 a neurologist successfully used a patient’s symptoms, plus a new kind of map, to locate a brain tumour. Discover how his best-laid plans for treatment worked out.
- 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.
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The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
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1.83 resources : population / produced by the Education Department of the World Wildlife Fund in collaboration with the International Planned Parenthood Federation and with the assistance of Population Concern.
Date: [1983?]- Books
The UN long-range population projections : what they tell us / [by Carl Haub and Nancy Yinger ; with the assistance of Sasha Loffredo].
Haub, Carl.Date: 1992- Books
International Population Conference : Ottawa 1963, August 21-26 = Congrès international de la population : Ottawa 1963, 21-26 août.
International Population Conference (1963 : Ottawa, Ont.)Date: 1964- Books
Bastardy and its comparative history : studies in the history of illegitimacy and marital nonconformism in Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, North America, Jamaica and Japan / edited by Peter Laslett, Karla Oosterveen and Richard M. Smith, with the assistance of other members of the SSRC Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure.
Date: 1980- Archives and manuscripts
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Mauritius
Date: 1954-1978Reference: SA/PIC/F/13Part of: Population Investigation Committee