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Willful Blindness

A Letter to the Right Hon Lord Althorp on the Injustice and other evils of the present system of poor laws (1833)

Afternoon tea at the library celebrates Edith Abbott

The Grand Island Independent | L Shultis

The Grand Island Public Library held a Victorian Tea Party in recognition of Edith Abbott’s 140th birthday.

Part of Our Lives: a people’s history of the American public library

Stature and sibship: historical evidence

Poverty and Welfare in Guernsey 1560–2015

The State, Convicts and Longitudinal Analysis

‘I never could forget my darling mother’: the language of recollection in a corpus of female Irish emigrant correspondence

Wisdom’s Workshop: the rise of the modern university

History: The McGill School of Social Workers

McGill School of Social Work Graduating Class of 1930 – McGill Archives

The Civil Rights Movement As Photographed By Stephen Somerstein

Radical social work: Refocusing social work, seeing more than the individual

History of Social Work

Dissatisfied with social work focusing too much on individuals and not addressing the social causes of distress, a number of practitioners launched Case Con, which described itself as a revolutionary magazine for social workers. The first issue appeared in 1970 and stopped being published in 1977 after 25 issues. The title Case Con referred to case conferences but also to the con, the dishonest trick, of reducing structural social problems to individual client`s own responsibility

Canadian Identity

Canadian Encyclopedia | The Canadian Press/C Bigras

More than one hundred Aboriginal people march on Parliament Hill, to protest the elimination of Aboriginal rights in the proposed constitution, on November 16, 1981.

‘The Women’s Branch of the Commonwealth Relations Office’: the Society for the Overseas Settlement of British Women and the long life of empire migration

History: School of Social Work at the University of Pittsburgh

‘An Utter Absence of National Feeling’: Australian Women and the International Suffrage Movement, 1900–14

ESP on Trial

The Scientist | Duke University Archives

DIVINING AN ANSWER: J.B. Rhine’s early experiments at Duke University employed a set of cards named “the Zener deck” after its inventor, Karl Zener, one of Rhine’s collaborators. The deck consists of 25 cards, with five of each symbol: square, circle, cross, squiggly lines, and star. Here, Rhine is shown testing a woman for ESP using the cards in the presence of an assistant (right).

The Limits of Liberal Planning: The Lindsay Administrations Failed Plan to Control Development on Staten Island

Wanting and Having: popular politics and liberal consumerism in England, 1830–70

Temporary and lasting effects of childhood deprivation on male stature. Late adolescent stature and catch-up growth in Woerden (The Netherlands) in the first half of the nineteenth century

The Spectral Wound: sexual violence, public memories and the Bangladesh war of 1971

Overcoming our mutual isolation: How historians and psychologists can work together.

Adjusting and fulfilling masculine roles: the epistolary persona in Dutch transatlantic letters

Mexicans in the Making of America

Was Plague an Exclusively Urban Phenomenon? Plague Mortality in the Seventeenth-Century Low Countries

The history specialist in psychology: From avocation to professionalization.

Bonds of love, ties of kinship? Or are there other ways of imagining the family

Worktown: The Astonishing Story of the Project That Launched Mass Observation

In the late 1930s the Lancashire town of Bolton witnessed a ground-breaking social experiment. Over three years, a team of ninety observers recorded, in painstaking detail, the everyday lives of ordinary working people at work and play – in the pub, dance hall, factory and on holiday. Their aim was to create an ‘anthropology of ourselves’.