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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Dial ‘S’ for sex
In pre-internet days, phone boxes became a patchwork of ‘tart cards’ offering sexual services. Find out about the clandestine world they hint at.
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Why the NHS is worth saving
In this extract from his latest book, ‘Free For All’, Dr Gavin Francis poses challenging questions to be addressed if a health service that’s free for all at the point of use is to remain possible.
Catalogue
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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- Books
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XXVIII. Reports of visits to Poor Law and charitable institutions and to meeting of local authorities in the United Kingdom.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909- Books
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Index to the Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords on Poor Law Relief.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. Select Committee on Poor Law Relief.Date: 1888- 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- Books
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Vol. XIV. Report to the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress on Poor Law medical relief in certain unions in England and Wales. / By John C. McVail.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909