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Political Disinformation on the Eve of Reform
- 26 September 2025,
- The ‘Vote Leave’ or ‘Brexit’ bus which toured the UK in 2016 plastered with the blunt assertion ‘We send the EU £350 million a week’ is an infamous recent example...
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The IVF Pioneers: Who Really Wrote Their Autobiography?
- 26 September 2025,
- This blog post is about the author’s recent paper in Medical History, The ghostwriter and the test-tube baby: a medical breakthrough story For 45 years A Matter of Life has provided the standard account of the science and medicine behind the sensational birth of the first ‘test-tube baby’.…...
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Trust and the French revolutionary cahiers of 1789
- 25 September 2025,
- The French Revolution is more obviously associated with paranoid and deadly suspicion than with trust, but it was in the pervasive desire to rebuild a political...
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