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.
- Book extract
Why the NHS is worth saving
In this extract from his latest book, ‘Free For All’, Dr Gavin Francis poses challenging questions to be addressed if a health service that’s free for all at the point of use is to remain possible.
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Milk trails round Euston
Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.
- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
Catalogue
- Books
Studies concerning the handling of milk / by the staff of the National Institute for Research in Dairying, University of Reading.
National Institute for Research in Dairying (Great Britain)Date: 1931- Books
Studies concerning the handling of milk / by the staff of the National Institute for Research in Dairying, University College, Reading.
National Institute for Research in Dairying (Great Britain)Date: 1924- Books
The use of performance tests of intelligence in vocational guidance : an investigation conducted for the National Institute of Industrial Psychology / by F.M. Earle [and others].
Date: 1929- Books
Physiological responses to hot environments : an account of work done in Singapore, 1948-1953, at the Royal Naval Tropical Research Unit, with an appendix on preliminary work done at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, London / compiled by R. K. Macpherson.
Date: 1960- Archives and manuscripts
National Survey of the Health and Development of Children (NSHD)
Date: 1946-1998Reference: SA/PIC/F/7Part of: Population Investigation Committee