Stories
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Dirt, disease and the Inspector of Nuisances
In the days when ‘bad air’ was thought to spread disease, dozens of Inspectors of Nuisances ceaselessly struggled against the perils of dirt – both visible and invisible.
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Vivekananda’s journey
How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.
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What is air, and how do we know?
Watching bubbles in fermenting beer led 18th-century scientist Joseph Priestley to invent sparkling water – and to discover that different gases make up the air we breathe.
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NHS Blue: the colour of universal healthcare
The 1980s and 1990s saw ideas from the world of business infiltrating the NHS, including the introduction of an internal market, followed by a corporate branding exercise.
Catalogue
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The housing handbook / by W. Thompson. A practical manual for the use of officers, members, and committees of local authorities, ministers of religion, members of Parliament and all social or municipal reformers interested in the housing of the working classes.
Thompson, W., of Surrey.Date: 1903- Books
Putting the pieces together : a national action plan for dementia care, September 1992 / Mid Term Review of the Aged Care Reform Strategy Stage 2 1991-92.
Mid-term Review of Aged Care Reform Strategy 1991-92 (Australia)Date: 1992- Books
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A housing policy : to which is added a lecture on housing reform delivered in Birmingham, March 28, 1906 / by John S. Nettlefold.
Nettlefold, John S. (John Sutton)Date: [1906?]- Books
Medical gridlock and health reform / Eli Ginzberg.
Ginzberg, Eli, 1911-2002.Date: [1994], ©1994- Books
Cultivating health : Los Angeles women and public health reform / Jennifer Lisa Koslow.
Koslow, Jennifer Lisa, 1970-Date: [2009], ©2009