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.
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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.
Catalogue
- Books
Loss of central vision? : Age-related macular degeneration is the biggest cause of sight loss in the UK : No one need face macular degeneration alone ... / Macular Society.
Date: [2010?]- Books
Your guide to age-related macular degeneration / Macular Society.
Macular Society (Great Britain)Date: [2013]- Ephemera
Eye care and diseases ephemera. Box 1.
- Archives and manuscripts
Clarke, Sir Cyril Astley
Date: 1954-1956Reference: PENROSE/3/3/16Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers