Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
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.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
Catalogue
- Journals
Report of the Department of Health for Scotland.
Date: 1947-1962- Journals
Annual report of the Department of Health for Scotland.
Date: 1930-1939- Books
Summary report / by the Department of Health for Scotland.
Date: 1941-1945- Books
Tuberculosis infection in milk : a report by the Department of Health for Scotland.
Date: 1933- Books
- Online
Towards a healthier Scotland : a white paper on health / the Scottish Office Department of Health.
Great Britain. Scottish Office. Department of Health.Date: 1999