Stories
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Why are women more willing donors than men?
Why is there a gender imbalance when it comes to the donation of organs, blood and tissue, and what can be done about it?
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Befriending heavy breathers
Read the fascinating story behind the rare manual that helped volunteers on one of Britain’s first free telephone helplines to deal with masturbating callers.
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Remote romance and the common cold
Getting creatively romantic due to a virus sounds all too contemporary, but our archives show what socially distanced seduction looked like seven decades ago.
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The ancient doctors who refused payment
The NHS might only be 70 years old, but the idea of free healthcare goes back to Ancient Greece, when devout doctors provided their services without charge.
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Catalogue
- Ephemera
Women volunteers : the Government asks you to consider volunteering for the A.T.S. immediately ... 200,000 urgently needed in the A.T.S. now! / Ministry of Labour and National Service.
Date: [between 1939 and 1945]- Ephemera
Women wanted : to help the children from evacuated areas ... apply to your local council or local branch of the Women's Voluntary Services / [Ministry of Labour and National Service?].
Date: [between 1939 and 1945]
- Ephemera
- Online
Women wanted as ambulance drivers : offer your services to your local council or any branch of Women's Voluntary Services : Civil Defence / [Ministry of Labour and National Service?].
Date: [between 1939 and 1945]- Books
Women and AIDS : psychological perspectives / edited by Corinne Squire.
Squire, Corinne, 1958-Date: 1993- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence re volunteer trials
Date: 1980-1982Reference: PP/TYR/A/2/1/7Part of: Tyrrell, David (1925-2005)