Stories
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
- Article
Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs
The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.
- Article
The bishop’s profitable sex workers
How did the Church rake in revenue from 14th-century sex regulations? Kate Lister explores a bishop’s lucrative rulebook.
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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.
Catalogue
- Books
Aspects of drug addiction : a report on a survey carried out under the auspices of the Royal London Prisoners' Aid Society / Martin Silberman.
Silberman, Martin.Date: [1967]
- Books
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Twenty-second annual report, 1909 / Invalid Children's Aid Association.
Invalid Children's Aid Association (London, England)Date: 1909
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Photocopies of letter from Florence Nightingale to Major (later Colonel) J.S. Young of the National Aid Society
Date: 1885, 1899Reference: RAMC/1029Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection
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Report of the operations of the British National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War during the Egyptian campaign, 1884-85 : together with a statement of receipts & expenditure, and correspondence.
British National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War.Date: [1886]
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Report of the operations of the British National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War during the Servo-Bulgarian War, 1885-6 : together with a statement of receipts & expenditure, and correspondence.
British National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War.Date: [1886]