Stories
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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.
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The girl with no name
When a now anonymous teenager sold her tooth for transplant, she couldn’t have predicted that she’d end up at the heart of a troubling story about 18th-century beauty ideals.
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Surviving fatness
It took time for LMM to discover that being fat and poor are mutually exclusive. Here she describes resisting fatphobia by being visible and leaning in to the stereotype.
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How to be poor and happy
Money, security, self-sufficiency and charitable giving have long been linked to happiness. But what if you’re working class?
Catalogue
- Books
The housing of the working classes / by Edward Bowmaker.
Bowmaker, Edward.Date: 1895- Books
Elementary schooling and the working classes 1860-1918 / J.S. Hurt.
Hurt, J. S. (John S.)Date: 1979- Archives and manuscripts
Draft Circular "Social Position of Present Householders and that of their Fathers"
Date: Late 19th CenturyReference: GALTON/2/4/16/2Part of: Galton Papers- Books
Ability in social and racial classes : some physiological correlates / by Roland Clark Davis.
Davis, Roland C. (Roland Clark), 1902-Date: 1932- Books
Prosperity and parenthood : a study of family planning among the Victorian middle classes / [Joseph Ambrose Banks].
Banks, J. A. (Joseph Ambrose), 1920-2005.Date: [1954]