Stories
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The colonist who faced the blue terror
India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.
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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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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.
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Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs
In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XXVI. Documents relating more especially to the administration of charities.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1910- Books
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Final report of Her Majesty's Commissioners appointed to inquire into the operation and administration of the laws relating to the sale of intoxicating liquors.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Liquor Licensing Laws.Date: 1899- 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 Volume XVI. Report by Mr. A.D. Steel-Maitland and Miss Rose E. Squire, H.M. Inspector of Factories, on the relation of industrial and sanitary condtions to pauperism, together with an additional memorandum on certain other points connected with the Poor Law system and its administration.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909- Books
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A tour through Ireland; wherein the present state of that Kingdom is considered; and the most noted cities, towns, seats, buildings, loughs, &c. described. Interspersed with observations on the Manners, Customs, Antiquitifs, Curiosities, and Natural History of that Country. To which is Prefixed, a General Description of the Kingdom; with The Distances between the Ports, &c. on the Coast of Great - Britain, and those on that of Ireland.
Luckombe, Philip, -1803.Date: M.DCC.LXXX. [1780]