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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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Born in the NHS

Despite underfunding, strikes and scandals, the first two decades of the 2000s has seen the British people’s love of and loyalty to the NHS soar.

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The history of brainwashing

Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.

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How online dating can make us lonely

The packed diary of an internet dater doesn’t necessarily denote fun, companionship and love. Find out what Christina Patterson learned on her internet-dating odyssey.

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  • A framed picture falls off a cornice marked 'National Honour'; representing dishonour for Great Britain perceived by the Whigs in the Anglo-Spanish convention on the Falkland Islands. Engraving, 1771.
  • Press release 15th May 1991 : "Journalists reluctant to focus on WHO HIV/AIDS figures" : HIV/AIDS global figures and the developing world / The All-Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS.
  • Press release 15th May 1991 : "Journalists reluctant to focus on WHO HIV/AIDS figures" : HIV/AIDS global figures and the developing world / The All-Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS.
  • Future meetings (please note change of room) : HIV positive through NHS treatment: what future? ... Alternative & complementary treatments for HIV/AIDS ... HIV/AIDS and prisons : the management of HIV in prisons / The All-Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS.
  • Future meetings (please note change of room) : HIV positive through NHS treatment: what future? ... Alternative & complementary treatments for HIV/AIDS ... HIV/AIDS and prisons : the management of HIV in prisons / The All-Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS.
  • The British Museum: working-class people attending a guided tour and looking at exhibits of English history in glass cases and on the walls. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1843.
  • A Lancashire burglar, dressed in rags and smoking a pipe, with his dog, represented as a supporter of the Conservative Party. Lithograph (?), March 1880.
  • A contrast between the housing conditions of the Irish rural poor and those of the middle-class urban population, envisaged as the result of Home Rule for Ireland. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 17 October 1891.
  • A Liberal dentist discussing politics and the merits of Gladstone to his patient (a Tory) while the latter is prevented from speaking. Wood engraving by F.H., 1892.
  • Gadarene swine throwing themselves off a cliff into water, representing the British Liberal Party. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 5 April 1884.
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