Stories
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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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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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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India
Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.
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The tower in fiction, film and life
The high-rise estates born of postwar idealism soon became symbols of crime and squalor. But after one terrible tragedy, public bodies are being forced to rethink our towers.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Fell - Foreign Office German Education Department
Date: 1945-1986Reference: PP/MLV/C/6/5Part of: Vogt, Dr Marthe Louise (1903-2003)- Books
An emotional state : the politics of emotion in postwar West German culture / Anna M. Parkinson.
Parkinson, Anna M.Date: [2015]- Archives and manuscripts
Unpublished papers by Jane Wyndham-Kaye – talks, drafts of articles, etc
Date: 1959-1984, n.dReference: SA/HVA/G.6/1Part of: Health Visitors' Association- Books
- Online
Protecting motherhood : women and the family in the politics of postwar West Germany / Robert G. Moeller.
Moeller, Robert GDate: [1993], ©1993- Books
Gender and the long postwar : the United States and the two Germanys, 1945-1989 / edited by Karen Hagemann, Sonya Michel.
Date: [2014]