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.
- Photo story
Obesity and Britain’s boys
Six young men and six experiences of being overweight. Find out how these boys and their loved ones feel about this stigmatising issue.
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How music opens the doors of memory and the mind
People living with dementia can often still listen, perform or move to music. What does this tell us about how memories are formed?
- Long read
The ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
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[Minutes of evidence, appendices, and reports of the Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-minded].
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-Minded.Date: 1908- Books
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Report of the Royal Commission on the care and control of the feeble-minded, Volume VIII.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-minded.Date: 1908- Books
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The problem of the feeble-minded ; an abstract of the report of the Royal Commission on the care and control of the feeble-minded / and contributions by Sir Francis Galton [and others].
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-Minded.Date: 1909- Books
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Minutes of evidence taken before the Royal Commission appointed to consider and report upon the care and treatment of the sick and wounded during the South African campaign.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on South African Hospitals.Date: 1901- Archives and manuscripts
Spence, T. W. L. -Statement with regard to the Lunacy Law and System in Scotland submitted by the Secretary to the General Board of Lunacy for Scotland to the Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-Minded
Date: 1902Reference: DGH1/10/1/31Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital