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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The Political state of Great Britain.
Date: 1711-- Books
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The state of the trade and manufactory of iron in Great-Britain considered.
Date: 1750- Books
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On state medicine in Great Britain and Ireland / by Henry W. Rumsey.
Date: 1867- Books
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The present state of liberty in Great Britain and her colonies. By an Englishman.
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804.Date: [1769]- Books
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The Present state of liberty in Great-Britain. To be continued.
Date: MDCCXV. [1715]