Stories
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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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Befriending heavy breathers
Read the fascinating story behind the rare manual that helped volunteers on one of Britain’s first free telephone helplines to deal with masturbating callers.
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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.
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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
Catalogue
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XXVI. Documents relating more especially to the administration of charities.
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 XV. : Report to the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress on endowed and voluntary charities in certain places, and the administrative relations of charity and the Poor Law. / By Mr. A.C. Kay and Mr. H.V. Toynbee.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909- 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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A list, or short account, of various charitable institutions in Great-Britain, for the benefit of the poor and infirm, &c. : recommended to all benevolent persons.
Grimstone, Henry.Date: 1794- Books
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The reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor.
Date: 1811