Stories
- Book extract
The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
- Article
The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
- Article
Aphasia and drawing elephants
When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.
- Article
Pain and the power of activism
Today, women with endometriosis have more access to better information than ever before. Jaipreet Virdi applauds the shared stories, online communities and self-help books empowering women in pain.
Catalogue
- E-journals
- Online
English literature in transition, 1880-1920
Date: 1963-2020- E-journals
- Online
Criticism
Date: 1959-- E-journals
- Online
Renascence
Date: 1948-- E-journals
- Online
The Explicator
Date: 1942-- Books
- Online
Bibliothèque orientale, ou dictionnaire universel, contenant généralement tout ce qui regarde la connoissance des peuples de l'Orient, leurs histoires et traditions véritables ... / [Edited by A. Galland. With 'Éloge' by L. Cousin] par monsieur d'Herbelot.
Herbelot, Barthélemy d', 1625-1695.Date: 1776