Stories
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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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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.
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Graphic battles in pharmacy
James Morison’s campaign against the medical establishment inspired a wave of caricatures mocking his quack medicine.
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A proposal for granting annuities to raise a stock for improving the fishery of Great-Britain. In a method as advantagious, and on a fund as good, and well secured, as ever was offered in any age or country. Entered in the register of the Company of Stationers, and also in the Stamp-Office.
Cholmondeley, Daniel.Date: MDCCXIII. [1713]- Ephemera
The International Year of Disabled People 1981 : Post Office first day cover.
Great Britain. Post Office.Date: 1981- Ephemera
The International Year of Disabled People 1981 : proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly has four aims... / Stephen Crampton.
Great Britain. Post Office.Date: 1981- Books
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Report on Ireland.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909- Books
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XXX. Scotland. Statistics and other documents relating specially to Scotland.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1911