Stories
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Jim, the horse of death
Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.
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The Ladies of Llangollen
As we celebrate LGBT History Month, Sarah Bentley explores the relationship between the two 18th-century women known as the Ladies of Llangollen.
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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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Active pensioners, blooming gardens
To reach your 70s with over 300,000 Twitter followers or running a music festival is not the stereotypical image of retirement. But does this energetic engagement with life equal happiness?
Catalogue
- Journals
Retirement choice.
- Archives and manuscripts
Retirement
Date: 1984-1987Reference: PP/WDP/A/2Part of: Paton, Sir William Drummond Macdonald (1917-1993), Pharmacologist- Archives and manuscripts
Retirement book
Date: 1971Reference: PP/KEK/A.14Part of: Kekwick, Ralph Ambrose F.R.S. (1908-2000)- Archives and manuscripts
Retirement
Date: 1969Reference: GC/203/4/18Part of: Hall, Vernon Frederick "Sam"- Videos
Retirement report.
Date: 1980