Stories
- 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.
- Book extract
Why the NHS is worth saving
In this extract from his latest book, ‘Free For All’, Dr Gavin Francis poses challenging questions to be addressed if a health service that’s free for all at the point of use is to remain possible.
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The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
- Book extract
Inside the Cold War mind
Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.
Catalogue
- Books
Report for the National Deaf Children's Society on the care of the deaf : a survey of existing provisions for the social welfare, education and medical treatment of the deaf in Great Britain / by J.B. Perry Robinson.
Robinson, J. B. Perry.Date: [1958?]- Books
Physiological responses to hot environments : an account of work done in Singapore, 1948-1953, at the Royal Naval Tropical Research Unit, with an appendix on preliminary work done at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, London / compiled by R. K. Macpherson.
Date: 1960- Books
Hungry minds and neglected personalities : investigation into the needs and social service provision for deaf-blind people in Greater Manchester / by Derek Burton.
Burton, Derek.Date: 1990- Journals
Annual report / The Royal National Institute for the Deaf.
Royal National Institute for the Deaf (Great Britain)- Archives and manuscripts
National Survey of the Health and Development of Children (NSHD)
Date: 1946-1998Reference: SA/PIC/F/7Part of: Population Investigation Committee