Stories
- Article
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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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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When the sun goes down
Despite the country’s colonial and industrial dominion, the finest minds of Victorian Britain began to fear the devastating effects of declining natural resources. Even the death of the sun.
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‘Jessy’, a film about cerebral palsy
How the 1950s British film industry portrayed this disease.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Clark, John. A. - Drug Addiction in Great Britain Today with Special Reference to Prognosis
Date: 1963Reference: DGH1/6/18/43Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Letters from the Free German League of Culture in Great Britain to J B S Haldane
Date: Jun 1942 - Jul 1942Reference: HALDANE/4/21/6/1Part of: Haldane Papers- Books
The fitness of the nation - physical and health education in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : proceedings of the 1982 Annual Conference of the History of Education Society of Great Britain / edited by Nicholas Parry, David McNair.
History of Education Society (Great Britain). Conference (1982)Date: 1983- Books
The modern inorganic chemicals industry : the proceedings of a symposium organised by the Inorganic Chemicals Group of the Industrial Division of the Chemical Society, London, March 31st - April 1st, 1977 / edited by R. Thompson.
Date: [1977], ©1977- Books
Reports of the Air Medical Investigation Committee. 8, The effects of diminished tension of oxygen, with especial reference to the activity of the adrenal glands. 9, The ear in relation to certain disabilities in flying.
Great Britain. Medical Research Committee. Air Medical Investigation Committee.Date: 1919