Stories
- Photo story
Obesity and Britain’s boys
Six young men and six experiences of being overweight. Find out how these boys and their loved ones feel about this stigmatising issue.
- Article
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.
- Article
Eugenics and the welfare state
Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
Catalogue
- Books
- Online
Report of the Departmental Committee on Defective and Epileptic Children.
Great Britain. Committee on Defective and Epileptic Children.Date: 1898- Books
- Online
Report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the effect of food derived from tuberculous animals on human health. : Part II. List of witnesses, minutes of evidence, and index. Part III. Appendix. Special inquiries.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Tuberculosis.Date: 1895- Books
- Online
Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XXIII. Report to the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress on the condition of the children who are in receipt of the various forms of Poor Law Relief in certain parishes in Scotland / by C.T. Parsons, ..., assisted by Mary Longman & Marion Phillips.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1910- Books
- Online
Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XVIII. Report on the condition of the children who are in receipt of the various forms of Poor Law Relief in England and Wales, / by Miss Ethel M.N. Williams, ..., assisted by Miss Mary Longman and Miss Marion Phillips.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1910- Books
- Online
Report of the Commitee appointed by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, to enquire into the causes of the outbreak of scurvy in the recent Arctic Expedition ; the adequacy of the provision made by the Admiralty in the way of food, medicine, and medical comforts ; and the propriety of the orders given by the commander o[f] the Expedition for provisioning the sledge parties.
Great Britain. Admiralty. Committee on Scurvy.Date: [1877?]