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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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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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Vivekananda’s journey

How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.

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Guerrilla public health

From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.

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  • The spas of England, and principal sea-bathing places. Northern [Midland, Southern] spas / By A.B. Granville.
  • Northern expedition : just arrived from Baffin's Bay, to be seen, at no. 183 Piccadilly (opposite Burlington House,) the only two esquimaux indians, (male and female), brought to England from the frozen regions of the North ...
  • North of England Veterinary Medical Association. Rules and Regualtions.
  • Winter sheep dipping : Facts! Facts!! Facts!!! : useful to farmers in Scotland and the north of England... / Quibell Brothers.
  • Winter sheep dipping : Facts! Facts!! Facts!!! : useful to farmers in Scotland and the north of England... / Quibell Brothers.
  • Stonehenge, England: the straightening of a leaning stone which is attached to a wooden frame and pulleys: north west view. Photograph, 1901.
  • Stonehenge, England: the straightening of a leaning stone which is attached to a wooden frame and supported by beams: north east view. Photograph, 1901.
  • Saltare from the North East of England. Built for the manufacture of Alpaca and Mohair. Opened by Titus Salt in 1853. Planned with admirable arrangement for ensuring the health and comfort of the workpeople, and preventing accidents from the shafting and gearing.
  • Frende. 1593. A new almanacke and prognostication, seruing for the yeere of our Lorde God. M.D. XCIII. : Composed according to lawfull and lawdable art, and referred specially to the meridian and eleuation of the northeren pole of Canterburie, but may serue vniuersally, without any great error, for most partes of Englande. / By Gabriell Frende, practitioner in Astrologie and phisicke.
  • Frende. 1593. A new almanacke and prognostication, seruing for the yeere of our Lorde God. M.D. XCIII. : Composed according to lawfull and lawdable art, and referred specially to the meridian and eleuation of the northeren pole of Canterburie, but may serue vniuersally, without any great error, for most partes of Englande. / By Gabriell Frende, practitioner in Astrologie and phisicke.
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