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The birth of Britain's National Health Service
| Cal Flyn
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
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NHS strikes and the decade of discontent
| Cal Flyn
When the social unrest of the 1970s spread to the NHS, dissatisfied staff challenged the status quo for the first time in quarter of a century.
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Graphic battles in pharmacy
James Morison’s campaign against the medical establishment inspired a wave of caricatures mocking his quack medicine.
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Medics and the bomb
| Taras Young
Would a nuclear attack on the UK overwhelm the NHS? At the height of the Cold War, despite government optimism, medics predicted doom.
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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
| Mark Honigsbaum
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.