Stories
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Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
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When a private pee is a public disgrace
The free pee is getting rarer. And the lack of suitably equipped disabled toilets is condemning people to lives cloistered away in their own homes. Discover how toilet access for all is part of an equal society.
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Eugenics and the welfare state
Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.
Catalogue
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Public baths and washhouses and public libraries.
County of London.Date: 1899- Books
Public and private libraries of Glasgow / by Thomas Mason.
Mason, Thomas, 1857-1914.Date: 1885- Books
Ancient libraries / edited by Jason König, Katerina Oikonomopoulou, Greg Woolf.
Date: 2013- Books
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An Act for the better preservation of parochial libraries in that part of Great Britain called England.
Great Britain.Date: 1709]- Books
A check list of fifteenth century books in the Newberry Library and in other libraries of Chicago / compiled by Pierce Butler.
Newberry Library.Date: 1933