Stories
- Article
London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
- Article
The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
- Article
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.
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
![War Widows Association of Great Britain : member of Council of British Service and ex-Service Organisations, affiliated to National Council of Women [letterhead].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b15382850_EPH_3_4_0001.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![War Widows Association of Great Britain : member of Council of British Service and ex-Service Organisations, affiliated to National Council of Women : [introductory letter].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b1538293x_EPH_3_5_0001.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![War Widows Association of Great Britain : member of Council of British Service and ex-Service Organisations, affiliated to National Council of Women : [introductory letter].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b1538293x_EPH_3_5_0002.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![The War Widows Association of Great Britain [sticker].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b1538276x_EPH_3_3_0001.jp2/full/320%2C/0/default.jpg)
Catalogue
- Books
Sex education : whose responsibility? / report by a working party of the National Council of Women of Great Britain.
Date: 1984- Archives and manuscripts
National Council of Women of Great Britain
Date: 1929-1969Reference: SA/FPA/A13/65-66Part of: Family Planning Association
- Ephemera
- Online
War Widows Association of Great Britain : member of Council of British Service and ex-Service Organisations, affiliated to National Council of Women [letterhead].
War Widows Association of Great Britain.Date: [1992?]
- Ephemera
- Online
War Widows Association of Great Britain : member of Council of British Service and ex-Service Organisations, affiliated to National Council of Women : [introductory letter].
War Widows Association of Great Britain.Date: 1990- Journals
Report of Council / National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis (Great Britain).
National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis (Great Britain)Date: 1899-