This article explores some of the normative commitments which persist in the literature on behavioural interventions for disorders of inattention and hyperactivity.
Foreigners and Women Have the Same Problems: Binational Marriages, Women’s Grassroots Organizing, and the Quest for Legal Equality in Post-1968 Germany
Scandals in the family
The History of Psychology Newsletter, 1969–1997: History and index
Collectivity, human fulfilment and the ‘force of life’: Wilfred Trotter’s concept of the herd instinct in early 20th-century Britain
The dynamic of family structures in seventeenth-century Moldavia. Adoption and godparenthood
The Account of Several Workhouses, 1725
1864 Octavia Hill: Social housing and home visits
Margaret Thatcher had secret plan to use army at height of miners’ strike
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
Why sociologists abandoned the sick role concept
America’s Town Meeting of the Air (1935)
The Social Work of a Suburban Church (1907)
Wine drinking school children did poorer school work than abstainers
The Last Plague: Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health in Canada
National Institute of Health Plan for Social Work Research: Progress Report (2007)
Review of Cold war social science: Knowledge production, liberal democracy, and human nature, and working knowledge: Making the human sciences from Parsons to Kuhn.
Richard Titmuss: Forty years on
Richard Titmuss was one of the world’s leading public analysts and philosophers. He was enormously influential in shaping the post-war welfare state and created the discipline that we now call social policy. It is now forty years since he died. What would he have made of the present state of welfare? The present state of social policy? Welfare reformers frequently talk of going back to Beveridge. Should we not think of going back to Titmuss?
Death and taxes: understanding the death duty registers
Advice to a drunken father (1840-60?)
Arnold Toynbee: University Settlement
Arnold Toynbee (1852-1881) died before the age of thirty but nevertheless in his short life as a scholar his thinking did much to change how education could be developed through work in the poorer parts of Britain’s cities. He lectured in economic history at Oxford University where he was very critical of the effects of the industrial revolution which he saw emerging all around him.