Stories
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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.
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The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
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The relationship between science and art
Often seen as opposites, science and art both depend on observation and synthesis.
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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
Catalogue
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The Inner eye : [an exhibition of work made in psychiatric hospitals] 15 January - 19 February 1978, Museum of Modern Art Oxford.
Date: 1978- Books
Cottage hospitals, general, fever, and convalescent : their progress, management, and work in Great Britain and Ireland, and the United States of America, with an alphabetical list of cottage hospitals / by Sir Henry Burdett.
Burdett, Henry C., Sir, 1847-1920.Date: [1896?]- Books
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A collection of papers on naval architecture, originally communicated through the channel of the European Magazine, in which publication the further communications on this subject will be continued. To which are added, I. An Appendix of Original Letters, &c.; containing various Communications and Observations on Subjects connected with Naval Architecture. II. An Essay towards a General View of the Literature of the Art of Ship-Building. By Capt. Muller. III. Books relating to the Explication of the Technical Terms of the Art of Ship-Building. - Writings relating to the Theory of the Art of Ship-Building. - Writings relating to the Practice of the Art of Ship-Building. By the Same. IV. Appendix to the Catalogue of Books on Naval Architecture; containing such as areomitted by the Author of the Essay on the Literature of Ship-Building. Part II.
Date: [1792]- Books
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Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. Appendix.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909-1913- Books
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The census of Great Britain in 1851 : comprising an account of the numbers and distribution of the people, their ages, conjugal condition, occupations, and birthplace, with returns of the blind, the deaf-and-dumb, and the inmates of public institutions, and an analytical index : reprinted, in a condensed form, from the official reports and tables.
Great Britain. General Register Office.Date: 1854