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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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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Coronavirus, Crohn’s and me
Clinically vulnerable to COVID-19, Lucia Osborne-Crowley has been shut in her flat for months. With her chronic condition transformed into a life-threatening one, she explores what the pandemic is revealing about living with long-term illness.
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Fees, funding and the NHS
In the 1950s, dramatic political battles over NHS charges brought down a government. But public confidence in the service still grew.
Catalogue
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The economic impact of UK higher education institutions : a report for Universities UK / Ursula Kelly, Donald McLellan, Iain McNicoll.
Kelly, Ursula (Ursula Mary), 1964 March 30-Date: [2006]- Books
Jewels in the crown : the importance and characteristics of the UK's world-class universities / Russell International Excellence Group.
Date: [2012]- Books
Universities, knowledge transfer and regional development : geography, entrepreneurship and policy / edited by Attila Varga.
Date: 2009- Books
Tapping the riches of science : universities and the promise of economic growth / Roger L. Geiger and Creso M. Sá.
Geiger, Roger L., 1943-Date: 2008- Books
Promoting health, preventing disease : the economic case / edited by David McDaid, Franco Sassi and Sherry Merkur.
Date: 2015