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.
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The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
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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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Why pandemic denial is nothing new
Could today’s Covid-deniers be taking lessons from history? After all, it’s nearly 200 years since frustrations at a cholera-induced lockdown erupted in Sunderland.
Catalogue
- Journals
Annual report of the Local Government Board.
Great Britain. Local Government Board.Date: 1872-1919- Journals
Annual report of the Local Government Board for Scotland.
Date: [1896?]-1920- Books
Reports to the Local Government Board.
Date: 1918- Books
Reports to the Local Government Board.
Date: 1914- Books
- Online
Report to the Local Government Board / by R. Angus Smith.
Smith, Robert Angus, 1817-1884.Date: 1882