Stories
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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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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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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India
Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.
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The tower in fiction, film and life
The high-rise estates born of postwar idealism soon became symbols of crime and squalor. But after one terrible tragedy, public bodies are being forced to rethink our towers.
Catalogue
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An emotional state : the politics of emotion in postwar West German culture / Anna M. Parkinson.
Parkinson, Anna M.Date: [2015]- Books
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Protecting motherhood : women and the family in the politics of postwar West Germany / Robert G. Moeller.
Moeller, Robert GDate: [1993], ©1993- Books
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A study in municipal government : the corporation of Berlin / by James Pollard.
Date: 1893- Books
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German rearmament and the West, 1932-1933 / Edward W. Bennett.
Bennett, Edward WDate: [1979], ©1979- Books
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The history of the seven years war. Part I. Translated from the French by Thomas Holcroft.
Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]