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Can isolation lead to manipulation?

Military-funded researchers wanted to know if isolation techniques could facilitate brainwashing. One neuroscientist suggested that it might improve our own control over our minds.

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Birth, babies and boxes of memories

With memories of her baby in neonatal intensive care still fresh, Erin Beeston decides to unearth the poignant objects her family kept following births, going back as far as Victorian times.

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Can our sexual desires be transformed?

In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. One found that it couldn’t – and his discoveries led to a change in the law.

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Do good mothers make good democracy?

To be psychologically fit for democracy, one distinguished paediatrician argued that you need a ‘good enough mother’ – and that we must acknowledge the bad side of our feelings.

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  • John Williams, a member of the Tonkawa tribe. Platinum print by F.A. Rinehart, 1898.
  • Trinity College, Dublin: Biological Association members on the steps of a College building. Photograph by J. Chancellor, 1893.
  • The British Museum: the Roman Saloon, with visitors. Wood engraving attributed to J. and A. Williams, 1857.
  • Norwich Cathedral, Norwich, Norfolk. Etching by W. French, 1837, after J. Salmon.
  • John Wesley. Mezzotint by J. Faber, junior, 1743, after J. Williams.
  • A collection of architectural fragments, called the Architectural Museum, in the loft of a building at Cannon Row, Westminster. Wood engraving by C. W. Sheeres after J. Brown, 1854.
  • John Wesley. Mezzotint by J. Faber, junior, 1743, after J. Williams.
  • A dog chasing a cat through a window. Etching by W. R. Smith after J. Pitman.
  • Maidstone Drinking Fountain, Maidstone, Kent. Wood engraving by J.M. Williams, 1862.
  • The engine-house at Crossness and the outfall of the southern Metropolitan sewerage. Wood engraving by J.M. Williams, 1865.
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