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
Desperate housewives and suburban neurosis
Discover how a pioneering health centre replaced housewives’ supposedly empty home lives with a social space that encouraged healthy child rearing.
- In pictures
How Mills & Boon made medicine romantic
‘Doctor-nurse’ romances are a hugely popular trope. Agnes Arnold-Forster explores their history and surprisingly nuanced depictions of womanhood, hospitals and the welfare state.
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Fees, funding and the NHS
In the 1950s, dramatic political battles over NHS charges brought down a government. But public confidence in the service still grew.
Catalogue
- Books
Labour conditions in war contracts : with special reference to Canada, Great Britain and the United States / International Labour Office.
Date: 1943- Books
Labour's policy of food for all / Thomas Johnston.
Johnston, Thomas, 1881-1965.Date: 1937- Books
Labour inspection : extract from the report of the 36th (1966) session of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations / International Labour Office.
International Labour OfficeDate: 1966- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Labour MPs A-E
Date: c.1960-1968Reference: SA/ALR/A.5/1/1/1-125Part of: Abortion Law Reform Association- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Labour MPs: S-Z
Date: c.1960-1968Reference: SA/ALR/A.5/1/2/220-359Part of: Abortion Law Reform Association
