Stories
- Article
Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
- Article
Are you still nursing?
Julia Martins might get the side-eye for breastfeeding a three-year-old in the UK but, as she explains, examples from history, as well as the cultural norms of Brazil, where she grew up, are firmly on the side of extended nursing.
- Article
The work of wet-nursing
Many of us know that in the past, babies were sometimes nourished by wet-nurses. But, perhaps surprisingly, the practice continues today – and the milk recipients are not only babies.
- 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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Comments on the Report of the Standing Nursing and Midwifery Advisory Committee 'Making it Happen, Public Health - the contribution, role and development of nurses, midwives and health visitors'
Date: Sep 1995Reference: SA/SMO/L.203/7Part of: Society of Medical Officers of Health- Books
Protecting the public : how the UKCC promotes high standards of nursing, midwifery and health visiting care / UKCC.
United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery, and Health Visiting.Date: [2000]- Books
Protecting the public in Wales : how the UKCC promotes high standards of nursing, midwifery and health visiting care / United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery, and Health Visiting.
Date: 2000- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Teenagers - sexual behaviour
Date: 1965 - 2007Reference: SA/FPA/C/E/16/5/7Part of: Family Planning Association- Archives and manuscripts
[Press & Trade Adverts] - Industrial
Cooper McDougall & Robertson LtdDate: 1958 - 1963Reference: WF/C/M/GB/A/07Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd