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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Born in the NHS
Despite underfunding, strikes and scandals, the first two decades of the 2000s has seen the British people’s love of and loyalty to the NHS soar.
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Celebrating our soft toys
After cuddling a teddy bear cured her insomnia, Elspeth Wilson was inspired to speak to four other autistic and disabled adults, who praise the roles soft toys play in their lives.
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Thoughts on the present mode of taxation in Great Britain. The ruin that it leads to - and the way to avert it. By Francis Dobbs, Esq.
Dobbs, Francis, 1750-1811.Date: [1784]- Archives and manuscripts
Company-wide Newsletters & Journals (internal)
Date: 1942 - 2000Reference: WF/M/PB/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 4 ['Letter Book HSW Personal 2']
Date: Nov 1896 - Jan 1899Reference: WF/E/01/01/04Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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Serious considerations on the several high duties which the nation in general, (as well as it's trade in particular) labours under: with a proposal for preventing the running of goods, discharging the trader from any search, and raising all the publick supplies, by one single tax. By a well-wisher to the good people of Great-Britain.
Decker, Matthew, Sir, 1679-1749.Date: MDCCXLVIII. [1748]- Books
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The merchants and traders guide, or new and complete tables of the net duties payable, and drawbacks allowed, on certain goods, Wares, and Merchandize, imported, exported, or carried coastwise: together with a list of the bounties. Published under the inspection of Mr. Thomas Michael Barker , of the custom house, London. Likewise A Table of the Net Duties, Allowances, Bounties, and Drawbacks, in the Excise; together with the Licences necessary to be taken out by those Persons dealing in Exciseable Commodities: together with an enumeration of the stamp duties, Agreeable to the Consolidation Act of 27 Geo. III. With the Alterations and Amendments Of the Last Session. The Whole Alphabetically Arranged. To which is added, for Convenience of the Merchant, a complete table of the duties of customs, and excise on wine; Calculated from a Gallon to a Tun: with a table of the duty of customs on vinegar.
Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]