Stories
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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- Archives and manuscripts
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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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Leicester : sanitation versus vaccination. Its vital statistics compared with those of other towns, the army, navy, Japan, and England and Wales / by J.T. Biggs.
Biggs, J.T. (John Thomas)Date: [1912]- Books
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Leicester : sanitation versus vaccination its vital statistics compared with those of other towns, the army, navy, Japan, and England and Wales / by J.T. Biggs.
Biggs, J. T.Date: [1912?]- Books
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The exercise of the foot: with the evolutions, according to the words of command. As they are Explained. AS Also The Forming of Battalions. With Directions to be Observed by all Colonels, Captains, and other Officers in His Majesties Armies. By His Majesties Command. To which is added the exercise of the horse, granadiers of horse, and dragoons.
England and Wales. Army.Date: 1701