Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
The ‘undesirable epileptic’
Abused in her marriage for being 'a sick woman', Aparna Nair looked to history to make sense of the response to her epilepsy. She discovered how centuries of fear and discrimination were often endorsed by science and legislation.
- Article
The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Birth Control Trust / Birth Control Campaign series blurb
Date: 1985 - 1996Reference: PP/WDS/B.5Part of: Wendy Savage: archives (1935-)- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Publications by Madeleine Simms: Articles, various
Date: 1980-1983Reference: SA/ALR/G.64-77Part of: Abortion Law Reform Association- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Pamphlets on abortion
Date: 1978-1983Reference: SA/ALR/G.177-183Part of: Abortion Law Reform Association- Archives and manuscripts
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)Date: 1930s-2002Reference: SA/ASH- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Family Planning and Abortion
Date: 1937-1977Reference: SA/MWF/N.8Part of: Medical Women's Federation