Stories
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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.
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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.
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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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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
Catalogue
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Communist Party of Great Britain
Date: October 1972Reference: SA/DRS/B/1/96aPart of: DrugScope- Books
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A lecture on heads, written by George Alexander Stevens, Esq. with additions by Mr. Pilon; as delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lewis, At the Theatre Royal Covent Garden, The Royalty Theatre, Well-Close Square, and in various Parts of Great Britain; Also in the East Indies. To which is added An essay on satire. - The Public are requested to observe that there are several spurious Editions of this Lecture, which are not only inelegant but very inaccurate.
Stevens, George Alexander, 1710-1784.Date: 1795- Books
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Vaccinating Britain : mass vaccination and the public since the Second World War / Gareth Millward.
Millward, GarethDate: 2019
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The census of Great Britain in 1851 : comprising an account of the numbers and distribution of the people, their ages, conjugal condition, occupations, and birthplace, with returns of the blind, the deaf-and-dumb, and the inmates of public institutions, and an analytical index : reprinted, in a condensed form, from the official reports and tables.
Great Britain. General Register Office.Date: 1854
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Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain ; with appendices. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842.
Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners.Date: 1842
