Stories
- Article
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 secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
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Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
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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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain
Date: 15 Nov 1961Reference: PENROSE/2/12/18/36Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Archives and manuscripts
The Journal and Transactions of the Photographic Society of Great Britain
Date: 26 Jan 1894Reference: GALTON/2/8/7/6/2Part of: Galton Papers- Archives and manuscripts
Journal and Transactions of the Photographic Society of Great Britain, Vol V. No. 9
Date: 24 Jun 1881Reference: GALTON/2/8/1/15/11Part of: Galton Papers- Archives and manuscripts
Papers of M H F Wilkins: correspondence with the Apostolic Delegation to Great Britain
Date: 1980-1981Reference: K/PP178/11/11/4Part of: Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick (1916-2004)- Archives and manuscripts
Clinical Genetics in Britain Related Documents
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCLDate: 1958-1997Reference: GC/253/A/39/9Part of: Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Seminars