Stories
- Article
Social isolation and the search for sanctuary
Threatened with deportation, Furaha Asani turned to her church for support. Met with silence and disinterest, she walked away, but argues that churches should do much more for migrants.
- 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.
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NHS strikes and the decade of discontent
When the social unrest of the 1970s spread to the NHS, dissatisfied staff challenged the status quo for the first time in quarter of a century.
- In pictures
The friendly societies and healthcare
For a couple of centuries, friendly societies plugged the healthcare gap between expensive private care and charitable institutions for many thousands of people in the UK.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
"Social service department development circulars"
Date: 1969-post 1973Reference: PP/RKF/B.20/13Part of: Freudenberg, Rudolph Karl (1908-1993) and Freudenberg, Gerda (née Vorster) (1906-1995)- Books
Social service. No.399, December 1939.
Date: 1939- Books
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Social service and the art of healing.
Cabot, Richard C. (Richard Clarke), 1868-1939.Date: 1912- Journals
Social service abstracts / prepared by the Department of Health and Social Security Library during.
- Books
Social service in a general hospital / by Dorothy Manchée.
Manchée, Dorothy.Date: 1944