Stories
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NHS strikes and the decade of discontent
When the social unrest of the 1970s spread to the NHS, dissatisfied staff challenged the status quo for the first time in quarter of a century.
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Booze and bad behaviour
Our love of alcohol is like a party that’s lasted nine centuries. But there are signs that the demon drink is losing its appeal.
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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.
Catalogue
- Books
The Social Section and Advisory Committee on Social Questions of the League of Nations / Carol Miller.
Miller, CarolDate: 1995- Books
Enquiry into measures of rehabilitation of prostitutes.
League of Nations. Advisory Committee on Social Questions.Date: 1938-- Books
Enquête sur les mesures de relèvement des prostituées : services sociaux et maladies vénériennes / Commission Consultative des Questions Sociales.
League of Nations. Advisory Committee on Social Questions.Date: 1938- Books
Prevention of prostitution : A study of measures adopted or under consideration particularly with regard to minors.
League of Nations. Advisory Committee on Social Questions.Date: 1943]- Archives and manuscripts
Printed material on various professional issues
Date: Late 19th century-late 20th centuryReference: SA/HVA/G.1/18Part of: Health Visitors' Association