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NHS strikes and the decade of discontent

When the social unrest of the 1970s spread to the NHS, dissatisfied staff challenged the status quo for the first time in quarter of a century.

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The unimprovable white cane

Recent technological additions to the white cane aim to make the world easier for visually impaired people to navigate. Alex Lee explores whether new is really better.

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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.

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Mary Bishop and the surveillant gaze

Writer and artist Rose Ruane explores the paintings of Mary Bishop, created during a 30-year stay in a psychiatric hospital, which speak of constant medical surveillance and censorious self-examination.

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  • Members of the committee set up to establish the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital in South Africa. Process print after J. Duncan, ca. 1900.
  • Annual dinner to the wounded and disabled patients from the ministry of Pensions' Hospital, Chapel Allerton, Leeds, on Wednesday, 18th January, 1933, at the Leeds & County Conservative Club, South Parade, Leeds / The Wounded Warriors Welfare Committee, Leeds.
  • Annual dinner to the wounded and disabled patients from the ministry of Pensions' Hospital, Chapel Allerton, Leeds, on Wednesday, 18th January, 1933, at the Leeds & County Conservative Club, South Parade, Leeds / The Wounded Warriors Welfare Committee, Leeds.
  • Boer War: The Duke of Connaught raising the Union Jack on the masthead of a hospital ship, an official Committee and line of soldiers in attendance. Gouache painting by F. Dickinson after D. Macpherson, 1899.
  • Organization of nursing : an account of the Liverpool Nurses' Training School, its foundation, progress, and operation in hospital, district, and private nursing / by a member of the committee of the Home and Training School ; with an introduction and notes by Florence Nightingale.
  • A pot, a two-headed multi-legged creature and smaller symbols relating to ways in which AIDS is not transmitted including mosquitoes, hands shaking and a hospital bed; an advertisement issued by the Indian Committee of Youth Organizations. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Appeal for funds : at the request of the Serbian government the London committees are providing two new field hospitals & a motor transport section to accompany the Serbian division in Russia / London Units of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service (National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies.)
  • Appeal for funds : at the request of the Serbian government the London committees are providing two new field hospitals & a motor transport section to accompany the Serbian division in Russia / London Units of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service (National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies.)
  • Appeal for funds : at the request of the Serbian government the London committees are providing two new field hospitals & a motor transport section to accompany the Serbian division in Russia / London Units of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service (National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies.)
  • Appeal for funds : at the request of the Serbian government the London committees are providing two new field hospitals & a motor transport section to accompany the Serbian division in Russia / London Units of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service (National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies.)
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