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Legacies of Eugenics

Digitised material from the Legacies of Eugenics research project. The Collection includes publications of the Eugenics Laboratory as well as some sister material from the Biometric Laboratory.

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The Legacies of Eugenics project was a research project focused on the history and legacies of eugenics around University College London (UCL) during the twentieth century.

Karl Pearson (left) alongside Francis Galton in about 1905
The project launched in 2020 following completion of the UCL Eugenics Inquiry. The primary focus was the “Eugenics Laboratory,” started by Professor Karl Pearson in 1907 with seed funding from Francis Galton. The project also followed legacies of eugenics through successive administrative units within the university (such as the short-lived Department of Eugenics) and successive directors (including Ronald A. Fisher and Lionel Penrose).
 

A major digitisation project made available the frequently obscure publications of the Eugenics Laboratory as well as some sister material from the Biometric Laboratory and some rare materials in the educational literature.

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