1907. The Eugenics Education Society was founded in Great Britain by some of the leading intellectuals and social reformers of the time(H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, Marie Stopes, etc.), who were concerned about overpopulation and its threat on society. Sir Francis Galton served as the society's first president. The goal of the Eugenics Education Society in Britain was to further “eugenic teaching and understanding in the home, in the school and elsewhere” (Chitty, 2007, p. 2).

The Society campaigned for sterilisation and marriage restrictions in Britain (Brignell, 2010). It also organized the first International Eugenics Conference in 1912 (Brignell, 2010). In 1926, it was renamed the Eugenics Society, and it received much support from politicians, and the medical profession (Chitty, 2007). The Society also published the Eugenics Review from 1909 until 1968.

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• Chitty, C. (2007). Eugenics, Race, and Intelligence in Education. London: Continuum Publishing.

• Brignell, V. (2010, December 9). The eugenics movement Britain wants to forget. New Statesman. Retrieved from http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2010/12/british-eugenics-disabled