Stories
- Photo story
Obesity and Britain’s boys
Six young men and six experiences of being overweight. Find out how these boys and their loved ones feel about this stigmatising issue.
- Article
Born in the NHS
Despite underfunding, strikes and scandals, the first two decades of the 2000s has seen the British people’s love of and loyalty to the NHS soar.
- Article
Eugenics and the welfare state
Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.
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Going viral in the online anti-vaccine wars
‘Anti-vaxxers’ are taking their message online using powerful images as well as words. But is the pro campaigners’ response any better?
Catalogue
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XXXI. Statistics relating to Ireland.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1910- Books
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XXV. Statistics relating to England and Wales.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1911- Books
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XXX. Scotland. Statistics and other documents relating specially to Scotland.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1911- Archives and manuscripts
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Abortion statistics
Date: 1969 - 2004Reference: SA/FPA/C/E/16/3/5Part of: Family Planning Association- Books
Mental health of children and young people in Great Britain, 2004 / authors: Hazel Green [and others].
Date: 2005