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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Our endless quest for eternal youth
From poisonous 16th-century cosmetics to the latest “vampire facelift”, discover the fashions in unsavoury methods for improving our appearance.
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Medics and the bomb
Would a nuclear attack on the UK overwhelm the NHS? At the height of the Cold War, despite government optimism, medics predicted doom.
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Life lessons across the digital divide
What could 86-year-old Tony teach 20-something Adele as she showed him how to use his smartphone? Rather a lot about digital exclusion, it turns out.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
"Wales"
Date: 1972-1989Reference: PP/PCB/C/1/47Part of: Patrick Clavell Blount- Archives and manuscripts
Wales: North Wales Association
Date: 1975Reference: SA/MSS/C/201Part of: Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland- Archives and manuscripts
Wales: Association of South Wales Branches
Date: 1974-1975Reference: SA/MSS/C/202Part of: Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland- Books
Wales Regional Technology Plan / an innovation and technology strategy for Wales : action plan.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999?]- Archives and manuscripts
Wales (run in connection with Heartbeat Wales)
Date: May 1986-Aug 1987Reference: GC/164/F/4/47/49Part of: Save a Life Campaign