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Medics and the bomb
Would a nuclear attack on the UK overwhelm the NHS? At the height of the Cold War, despite government optimism, medics predicted doom.
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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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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
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Social isolation and the search for sanctuary
Threatened with deportation, Furaha Asani turned to her church for support. Met with silence and disinterest, she walked away, but argues that churches should do much more for migrants.
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Statistical Handbooks Series: no 3: The official vital statistics of England and Wales
Date: 1925Reference: RAMC/2063/6/3Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection
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Miscellaneous, including passports to allow Lindsay to return overland to England from Corfu, hotel bills from Italy and Switzerland, and a printed broadsheet lampooning the lover of Caroline, Princess of Wales
Date: c.1820Reference: RAMC/262/6Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Books
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The new law list, being a list of the judges, and officers of the courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas, Exchanquer, &c. &c. A list of Counsel, special pleaders, And Conveyancers; To Which IS Added a complete and accurate list of all the certificated attornies in England and Wales, As printed by Permission of the Commissioners of the Stamp Office: And To This Edition IS Added The London Agents to the Country Attornies; Table of Sheriffs and Agents, List of Bankers, Mail Coaches, Newspapers, Army and Navy Agents. Law and Public Offices, Circuits of the Judges, &c. And a Variety of other useful
Date: [1800]- Books
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The new description and state of England, containing the maps of the counties of England and Wales, in fifty three copper-plates, newly design'd by Mr. Robert Morden, Exactly Drawn and Engraven by the best Artists. The several Counties described, the Account of their Ancient and Modern Names, Extent, Soil, Former and Present Inhabitants, their Number, Rarities, Market-Towns, and Days whereon the Markets are kept; Hundreds Rivers, Bays, Harbours, Bridges, Minerals, Commodities, Number of Acres, what proportion each County pays to the Land-Tax, Archbishopricks, Bishopricks, Cathedrals, Parish-Churches, Schools, Hospitals, Roads and Distances, Roman Ways, Post-Towns, Men of Note, Memorable Battles and Actions, the Houses of the Nobility and Gentry, an Account of Fairs, &c. The second edition. To which are added, new and exact lists of the House of Peers and Commons, of the Lord-Lieutenants of each County, of the Army, Navy, Officers and Offices, and all Persons in Places of Profit or Trust, belonging to this Kingdom.
Morden, Robert, -1703.Date: 1704- Books
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The new description and state of England, containing the mapps of the counties of England and Wales, in fifty three copper-plates, Newly Design'd, Exactly Drawn and Engraven by the Best Artists. The several Counties described, the Account of their Ancient and Modern Names, Extent, Soil, Former and Present Inhabitants, their Number, Rarities, Market-Towns, and Days whereon the Markets are kept, Hundreds, Rivers, Bays, Harbours, Bridges, Minerals, Commodities, Number of Acres, what Proportion each County pays to the Land-Tax, Archbishopricks, Bishopricks, Cathedrals, Parish-Churches, Schools, Hospitals, Roads and Distances, Roman Ways, Post-Towns, Men of Note, Memorable Battles and Actions, the Houses of the Nobility and Gentry, an Account of Fairs, &c. To which is added, a new and exact list of the House of Peers and Commons, and of the Lord-Lieutenants of each County, of the Army, Navy, Officers and Offices, &c. belonging to this kingdom.
Morden, Robert, -1703.Date: 1701