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
A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
- Article
A virtual view of history
Step inside Anne Frank’s house or explore the galleries in a museum destroyed by fire. VR brings history and art satisfyingly close when we’re unable to get there in person.
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A history of gestation outside the body
It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.
Catalogue
- Books
Women in the history of science : a sourcebook / edited by Hannah Wills, Sadie Harrison, Erika Jones, Farrah Lawrence-Mackey and Rebecca Martin.
Date: 2023- Books
Yellow fever, black goddess : the coevolution of people and plagues / Christopher Wills.
Wills, Christopher.Date: 1996- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Files of correspondence and papers relating to H.C. Hunt, A Retired Habitation. A History of The Retreat, York (London 1932)
Date: 1928 - 1945Reference: RET 1/10/2/25Part of: The Retreat Archive- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Newspaper cuttings and other papers relating to local history
Date: 1920s - 1930sReference: RET 1/10/2/23Part of: The Retreat Archive- Archives and manuscripts
General Correspondence
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 2013 - 2015Reference: GC/253/A/55/1Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars