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
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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Between sickness and health
In early 2020, the subject Will Rees was studying – imaginary illnesses – took on a new relevance as everyone anxiously scanned themselves for Covid symptoms each day. But this kind of self-scrutiny is nothing new, as he reveals.
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Two health centres, two ideologies
Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Whitley Council for the Health Service (Great Britain)
Date: 1950Reference: SA/BMA/F.162Part of: British Medical Association- Ephemera
The cry of the children to the mothers of Great Britain / Women's Imperial Health Association.
Date: [1920?]- Archives and manuscripts
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Pharmacy Health Care Campaign: meetings between the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and the FPIS
Date: 1980Reference: SA/FPA/C/E/5/17Part of: Family Planning Association- Archives and manuscripts
Home and School Council of Great Britain
Date: c.1936-1939Reference: SA/MAC/E.2/9/3Part of: Mental After Care Association- Books
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Report from the Select Committee on Improvement of the Health of Towns, together with the minutes of evidence, appendix, and index. : Effect of internment of bodies in towns / Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 14 June 1842.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Improvement of the Health of Towns.Date: [1842?]