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Author, researcher (esp. British eugenics), facilitator and coach based in Sydney.
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What did C3 mean? (opens the original)
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This is the third of eight films. Click here to view films one and two.During the Boer and First World Wars, potential recruits were medically examined and were classified with a letter and a number. An “A1” man was considered:“… fit for service in the field, trained, equipped and ready to proceed to a theatre of War; A2 meant the same as AI except that the training of the man was not yet completed, and that should he be sent to a theatre of war, it would be n
Film 02. The Bandstand School. (opens the original)
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The Regent’s Park Bandstand School was set up for pre-tuberculous children, an offshoot of the St Marylebone Dispensary for the Prevention of Consumption at 15 Allsop Place, W1. It stood near the junction of paths to the west of the Ready Money Drinking Fountain until it was demolished in 1929.Dr Sutherland wrote about the school in The Arches of the Years (1933).The greatest romance which London ever gave me was the Romance of the Bandstand School in Regent’s Park. From 191
Kettling the Argument (opens the original)
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In studying the Stopes v Sutherland libel trial, I have become aware of a technique in historical writing for which I have not yet found a satisfactory name, so I borrowed one from crowd control.I call the technique kettling the argument. It comes from a policing technique to deal with large crowds, say on a protest or demonstration. “Kettling” means containing the crowd within a defined area. People may move around inside the enclosed space, but they cannot easily enter or leave it and, if they
Film 01. A National Calamity. (opens the original)
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This series begins with a question: “Why did a former President of the British Medical Association describe the elimination of tuberculosis as ‘nothing short of a national calamity’”?Sir James Barr was consulting physician to the Liverpool Royal Infirmary, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, President of the British Medical Association, and editor of the Liverpool Medico-Chirurgical Journal. In short, he was one of the most prominent physicians of his generation.1<div clas
A new series on eugenics begins on Thursday (opens the original)
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You may have subscribed after listening to a podcast interview or reading my work about eugenics and Malthusianism. My interest in these topics began with my grandfather’s battles in the early Twentieth Century. It continued when I realised that the population controllers against whom he fought created the demographic decline that we experience today deliberately, and that their ideas and agenda not only did not die out, but continue to thrive.The scandal of 1945 merely prompted the advocates of
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