Stories
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Medics and the bomb
Would a nuclear attack on the UK overwhelm the NHS? At the height of the Cold War, despite government optimism, medics predicted doom.
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Fees, funding and the NHS
In the 1950s, dramatic political battles over NHS charges brought down a government. But public confidence in the service still grew.
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Social isolation and the search for sanctuary
Threatened with deportation, Furaha Asani turned to her church for support. Met with silence and disinterest, she walked away, but argues that churches should do much more for migrants.
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Jim, the horse of death
Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
England and Wales
Date: 1956-1976Reference: SA/MSS/C/1-227Part of: Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland- Books
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England and Wales delineated / edited by E.L. Blanchard.
Dugdale, Thomas.Date: [1853?-1860]- Archives and manuscripts
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England and Wales divorce; intervention by the Kings Proctor
Date: c.1955Reference: SA/PIC/F/14/14/4Part of: Population Investigation Committee- Books
England and Wales youth cohort study : science and mathematics in full-time education after 16 / by Yuan Cheng, Joan Payne and Sharon Witherspoon.
Cheng, Yuan.Date: 1995- Books
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England and Wales delineated, historical, entertaining & commercial. Alphabetically arranged / by Thomas Dugdale ... Assisted by William Burnett.
Dugdale, Thomas.Date: [1854-60?]