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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.
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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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Plan of a society established in London, Anno Domini 1785. For the support and encouragement of Sunday-schools in the different counties of England; with a list of the subscribers, and extracts of letters received from various parts, containing accounts of the great utility of the institution.
Sunday School Society.Date: Printed in the year MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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Plan of a society established in London, Anno Domini 1785, for the support and encouragement of Sunday-schools in the different counties of England; With a list of the subscribers, and extracts of letters received from various parts, containing accounts of the great utility of the institution.
Sunday School Society.Date: Printed in the year MDCCXCVII. [1797]- Books
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An account of the intitution & regulations of the Sunday and Daily School, North Strand. Addressed more particularly to the inhabitants of St. Mary's, St. Thomas's and St. George's Parishes, with reflections on the importance of affording gratuitous education to the children of the poor.
North Strand School (Dublin, Ireland)Date: 1800- Books
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An account of the institution and regulations of the Sunday and Daily School, North-Strand. Adderssed more particularly to the inhabitants of the parishes of St. Mary, St. Thomas, and St. George. With reflections on the importance of affording gratuitous education to the children of the poor.
North Strand School (Dublin, Ireland)Date: 1794- Books
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Cheap Repository. The Sunday School.
More, Hannah, 1745-1833.Date: [1795?]