Stories
- Article
The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
- 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
Medics, migration and the NHS
In the 1960s the NHS became Britain’s biggest employer. So to help fill all those jobs, the government brought in thousands of workers from abroad.
- Article
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.
Catalogue
- Books
- Online
Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XVII. Report by Miss Constance Williams and Mr. Thomas Jones on the effect of outdoor relief on wages and the conditions of employment.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909- Books
- Online
Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XX. Report by Mr. Cyril Jackson on boy labour together with a memorandum from the General Post Office on the conditions of employment of telegraph messengers.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909- Books
- Online
Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XIX. B. Report by Mr. Cyril Jackson on the effects of employment or assistance given to the "unemployed" since 1886 as a means of relieving distress outside the Poor Law in Ireland.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909- Books
- Online
Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XIX A. Report by the Rev. J.C. Pringle on the effects of employment or assistance given to the "unemployed" since 1886 as a means of relieving distress outside the Poor Law in Scotland.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1910- Books
- Online
Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XXXVI. Some industries employing women paupers. A supplement to the report (Appendix vol. XVII) by Miss Constance Williams and Mr. Thomas Jones on the effect of outdoor relief on wages and the conditions of employment.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1910