Stories
- In pictures
Ludwig Guttmann and the birth of the Paralympics
As millions across the world enjoy this year’s Paralympics, discover how the Paralympian movement started life – with an event held by the visionary neurosurgeon Ludwig Guttmann.
- Article
Fees, funding and the NHS
In the 1950s, dramatic political battles over NHS charges brought down a government. But public confidence in the service still grew.
- Article
London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
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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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
1948-1950
Date: 1948-1950Reference: PP/JRE/C.53Part of: John Read (1908-1993), radiobiologist- Archives and manuscripts
'1948' and 'Lateral distribution of ions across the track of an alpha-ray in water'
Date: 1948Reference: PP/JRE/B.83Part of: John Read (1908-1993), radiobiologist- Ephemera
1948 International Clinical Congress : July 6-22 : London, Oxford, Birmingham : 15 students from 30 countries : organised in Great Britain / by the British Medical Students Ass.
International Clinical Conference (1948 : London)Date: 1948- Archives and manuscripts
Equipment, supplies, etc, 1948
Date: 1948Reference: PP/EBC/C.28Part of: Chain, Professor Sir Ernst Boris- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence, 1948-1957
Date: 1948-1957Reference: PP/EBC/K.312Part of: Chain, Professor Sir Ernst Boris