Ralph Metzner, LSD and Consciousness Researcher, Dies at 82
Dr. Metzner collaborated with Dr. Leary and Richard Alpert on The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead (1964), one of the core texts of the emerging psychedelic movement.
Celebrating the 1932 Kinder Scout mass trespass
A History of Child and Adolescent Treatment Through a Distillation Lens: Looking Back to Move Forward
Peering down the Memory Hole: Censorship, Digitization, and the Fragility of Our Knowledge Base
Briefly, Chinese knowledge platforms comparable to JSTOR are stealthily redacting their holdings, and globalizing historical narratives that have been sanitized to serve present political purposes.
Leisure, Voluntary Action and Social Change in Britain, 1880-1939
Fordism: a review essay
A historical community approach to social homogamy in the past
An eight hours bill: In the form of an amendment of the Factory Acts, with further provisions for the improvement of the conditions of labour (1889)
History of Social Welfare in Ireland
How Canada Used “Fruit Machine” To OUT Gays & Lesbians During The Cold War (50s & 60s) [ The Fruit Machine ]
Confrontational continuum: modernism and the psychedelic art of Martin Sharp
Free markets and feminism: the neo-liberal defence of the male breadwinner model in Britain, c. 1980–1997
University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work: Celebrating 50 Years of Social Work
The Peterloo Memorial Campaign
The late antique history of psychology: The test case of introspection.
A History Of Opioids In America
Fighting the “hurricane winds” of abortion liberalization: Americans United for life and the struggle for self-definition before Roe v. Wade
Soviet Street Children and the Second World War: Welfare and Social Control under Stalin
A time of great hardship, the Second World War became a consequential episode in the history of Soviet childhood policies. The growing social problem of juvenile homelessness and delinquency alerted the government to the need for a comprehensive child protection programme. Nevertheless, by prioritizing public order over welfare, the Stalinist state created conditions that only exacerbated the situation, transforming an existing problem into a nation-wide crisis.
Rules of the House: Family Law and Domestic Disputes in Colonial Korea
Eugenic concerns, scientific practices: international relations in the establishment of psychiatric genetics in Germany, Britain, the USA and Scandinavia, c.1910–60
‘The streets have been watched regularly’: the York Penitentiary Society, young working-class women, and the regulation of behaviour in the public spaces of York, c. 1845–1919
Migration to London and the development of the north–south divide, 1851–1911
Get Out of My Room! A History of Teen Bedrooms in America
People’s History of the NHS
The People’s History of the NHS allows you to help us research what the NHS means and how it has shaped our lives since its creation. It is part of our bigger academic project investigating the cultural history of the NHS, funded by the Wellcome Trust. Collecting personal stories and memories about the NHS is one of our central objectives.
The Charity Market and Humanitarianism in Britain, 1870-1912
Raising a true socialist individual: Yugoslav psychoanalysis and the creation of democratic Marxist citizens
The theory of symptom complexes, mind and madness
Undoing the New Deal: Truman’s Cold War Buries Wallace and the Left
Black liberation organisations in Britain: the 1970s and 1980s
Encyclopedia of Jewish Women
The Baldovan Institution Abuse Inquiry: a forgotten scandal
Moral Psychology and Social Change: The Case of Abolition
Race, Income, and Environmental Inequality in the U.S. States, 1990–2014*
Plebeian Modernity: social practices, illegality and the urban poor in Russia, 1906–1916
Who Were Milwaukee’s ‘Sewer Socialist’ Mayors?
Mayor Frank Zeidler was Wisconsin’s last socialist mayor.
1958 Notting Hill race riots
Mass racial violence last for several days over a wide area of West London as groups of white people, often Teddy Boys or individuals linked to far-right organisations, would attack black individuals as they walked through the streets or sometimes even at their homes.
‘Dementia praecocissima’: the Sante De Sanctis model of mental disorder in child psychiatry in the 20th century
Child Labor
From Spinster to Career Woman: Middle-Class Women and Work in Victorian England
Feigned Amnesia as a Defense Reaction
Originally Published February 22, 1919 | JAMA. 1919;72(8):565- 567.
Feminism on the frontier: the history of abortion law reform in 1973 in the Northern Territory, Australia
Communal Solidarity Immigration, Settlement, and Social Welfare in Winnipeg’s Jewish Community, 1882–1930
The Top-Secret Feminist History of Tea Rooms
‘The New Lesbian Sexual Revolution’: Lesbian Sex Radicals in Sydney during the 1980s and 1990s
In memoriam: Yeheskel ‘Zeke’ Hasenfeld, pioneer in the study of human service organizations
Yeheskel “Zeke” Hasenfeld was an influential author and a trusted mentor of UCLA Luskin students for more than three decades.