Stories
- Book extract
The meaning of happiness
What is happiness? Tiffany Watt Smith charts how its definition has changed over time, from chance emotion to something that can be measured and controlled.
- 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.
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Maladaptive daydreaming, gender myths and me
Can you daydream too much? Excessive daydreamer Laura Grace Simpkins reflects on studies into “maladaptive daydreaming” and asks why so few fellow dreamers seem to be men.
- Photo story
Trans masculinity on the record
Curator of the Museum of Transology in Brighton E-J Scott tells the story behind a few of the 250 objects from the collection, and the powerful effect they had on him as he put trans lives on the record.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Dr A. D. Morris: The Life and Times of James Parkinson
Morris, Arthur Daniel (1889-1980), medical historian.Date: 1960s-1980sReference: PP/ADM- Books
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Joseph Priestley as an historian of science : with some account of his philosophical apparatus existing at the present time / C.A. Browne.
Browne, Charles Albert, 1870-1947.Date: [1927]- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence
Date: 1967-1973Reference: PSY/KEN/9/3/1/1Part of: Kenna, John Corbett- Books
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Bp. Parker's history of his own time, in four books. With Remarks upon each, and the same compared with Bishop Burnet, Mr. Archdeacon Echard, Bevil Higgons Esq; F. Orleans and other Historians who have wrote of that Period. To which are added, two original journals of the expeditions to Spain and France, during the reign of King Charles I. Now first published from the curious Collection of Manuscripts of the Right Honourable George Lord Lansdowne. With an impartial account of Parker's life, and of his conversion from presbytery to popery.
Parker, Samuel, 1640-1688.Date: M.DCC.XXVIII. [1728]- Books
Battlefield surgeon : life and death on the front lines of World War II / Paul A. Kennedy ; edited by Christopher B. Kennedy ; foreword by Rick Atkinson ; afterword by John T. Greenwood.
Kennedy, Paul A. (Paul Andrew), 1912-1993Date: [2016]