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 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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How nature is defending itself in court
The idea that nature has legal rights is increasingly being taken seriously, but who gets to speak for it? Isabella Kaminski asks how the non-human can be represented within a human-made system.
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Eugenics and the welfare state
Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.
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Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. Appendix.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909-1913- Books
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. Appendix Volume XV. : Report to the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress on endowed and voluntary charities in certain places, and the administrative relations of charity and the Poor Law. / By Mr. A.C. Kay and Mr. H.V. Toynbee.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909- Books
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume III. Minutes of evidence (49th to 71st days) being mainly the evidence of critics of the Poor Law and of witnesses representing Poor Law and charitable associations. With Appendix.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909- Archives and manuscripts
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Letters between H Pollitt and J B S Haldane
Date: Jul 1947 - Nov 1947Reference: HALDANE/4/8/1/35Part of: Haldane Papers- Books
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XIII. Special reports from the dioceses in England and Wales as to the extent and intensity of poverty and the administration of charitable and Poor Law relief.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909