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 birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
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Yoga gets physical
Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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Essay II. On the nature and principles of public credit. Containing an investigation of the natural laws and principles of circulation, restorative of the Public Credit of any State, in case it shall have become decayed. Together with a postscript, pointing out the Method of applying those Laws and Principles, practically, to the Present State of the Public Debts and Finances of Great-Britain.
Gale, S. (Samuel), -1826.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIV. [1784]- Archives and manuscripts
Communist Party of Great Britain
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Four letters to the Earl of Carlisle, from William Eden, Esq. On certain perversions of political reasoning; and on the Nature, Progress, and Effect of Party Spirit and of Parties. On the present Circumstances of the War between Great Britain and the combined Powers of France and Spain. On the Public Debts, on the Public Credit, and on the Means of raising Supplies. On the representations of Ireland respecting a free-trade.
Auckland, William Eden, Baron, 1744-1814.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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Four letters to the Earl of Carlisle, from William Eden, Esq. On certain perversions of political reasoning; and on the Nature, Progress, and Effect of Party Spirit and of Parties. On the present Circumstances of the War between Great Britain and the combined Powers of France and Spain. On the Public Debts, on the Public Credit, and on the Means of raising Supplies. On the representations of Ireland respecting a free-trade.
Auckland, William Eden, Baron, 1744-1814.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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Four letters to the Earl of Carlisle, from William Eden, Esq. On certain Perversions of Political Reasoning; and on the Nature, Progress, and Effect of Party Spirit and of parties. On the present Circumstances of the War between Great Britain and the combined Powers of France and Spain. On the Public Debts; on the Public Credit; and on the Means of raising Supplies. On the Representations of Ireland respecting a Free-Trade. To which is added a fifth letter, On Population; on certain Revenue Laws and Regulations connected with the Interests of Commerce; and on Public Oeconomy.
Auckland, William Eden, Baron, 1744-1814.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]