Psychology

A 'teacher' in Milgram's study is instructed to administer an electric shock to a 'learner'.

Experiments in evil: the shocking efforts to understand the atrocities of the Holocaust

Cesare Lombroso, described as the 'father of criminology'. (Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images)

The ‘born criminal’? Lombroso and the origins of modern criminology

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‘Quacks’: the terrors and theatrics of Victorian medicine

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The golden age of murder: Agatha Christie and the Detection Club

Victorian burials and the history of psychology