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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The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
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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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Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
Catalogue
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Facts of importance relative to the present state of Great Britain.
Wakefield, David, active 1800.Date: 1800- Books
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Considerations upon the state of public affairs, in the year MDCCXCVIII. Part the third. The domestic state and general policy of Great Britain.
Bentley, Thomas Richard, 1748?-1831.Date: 1798- Books
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The state of the medical profession in Great Britain and Ireland / by William Dale.
Dale, William.Date: 1869- Books
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An account of the constitution and present state of Great Britain, together with a view of its trade, policy, and interest, respecting other nations, & of the (principal Curiosities Of Great Britain and Ireland adorn'd with Cuts.
Date: [1770?]- Books
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The present state of Great-Britain and Ireland. In three parts. ... Containing an accurate and impartial account of these great and famous islands: ... With the lists of the present officers in Church and state, ... Also the present state of His Majesty's dominions in Germany, ...
Miège, Guy, 1644-1718?.Date: 1716