Stories
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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 secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
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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.
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Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
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Letters from the Free German League of Culture in Great Britain to J B S Haldane
Date: Jun 1942 - Jul 1942Reference: HALDANE/4/21/6/1Part of: Haldane Papers- Archives and manuscripts
Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.Date: 1953-1977Reference: SA/MSS- Books
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First report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into Friendly and Benefit Building Societies ; together with minutes of evidence, appendix, and index.
Great Britain. Friendly and Benefit Building Societies Commission.Date: 1871- Archives and manuscripts
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Letters between the Soviet Film Agency and J B S Haldane
Date: Sep 1942 - Nov 1942Reference: HALDANE/4/21/6/7Part of: Haldane Papers- Archives and manuscripts
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Letters between J B S Haldane and Cameron Tudor
Date: Oct 1942 - Nov 1942Reference: HALDANE/4/8/1/3Part of: Haldane Papers