Stories
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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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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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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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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.Date: 1953-1977Reference: SA/MSS
- Books
- Online
List of members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science present at the meeting of September 1834.
Date: [1834?]- Journals
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Journal of biosocial science
Date: 1969-- Books
The Royal Society in the XIXth century : being a statistical summary of its labours during the last thirty-five years. With many original tables and official documents (never before published) shewing the constitution of the Society - the character of its fellows - its various proceedings - and pecuniary expenditure for "improving natural knowledge;" and a plan for its reform. To which are added, alphabetical and seniority lists of the fellows since the year 1800 (arranged purposely for this occasion) / by A.B. Granville.
Granville, A. B. (Augustus Bozzi), 1783-1872.Date: 1836- Journals
Journal of scientific instruments.