The Founding of Mensa

Witness History: Witness Archive 2016

English - October 03, 2016 07:50 - 8 minutes - 4.07 MB - ★★★ - 8 ratings
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In 1946, Roland Berrill and Lancelot Ware were travelling on a train when they sparked up a conversation about intelligence testing. That chance encounter sparked the high IQ club, Mensa. Rachael Gillman speaks to the society's archivist Ian Fergus about those early days.

(Photo: A computer generated image of the human head and brain. Credit: Getty Images)