Stories
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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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The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
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Booze and bad behaviour
Our love of alcohol is like a party that’s lasted nine centuries. But there are signs that the demon drink is losing its appeal.
Catalogue
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Military memoirs of Great Britain: or, a history of the war, 1755 - 1763. With elegant copperplates. By David Ramsay.
Ramsay, David, of Edinburgh.Date: 1779- Books
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Ode to the privateer-commanders of Great Britain: being a parody on Mr. Mason's Ode to the naval officers of Great Britain. Written, immediately after reading his Ode, April the sixteenth, 1779. By - - -, B. A.
Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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The history of the government of the Church, as it was in Great-Britain and Ireland, when they first received the Christian religion. By William Lloyd, D. D. Bishop of Worcester.
Lloyd, William, 1627-1717.Date: 1703- Books
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A specimen of the Bishop of Sarum's posthumous history of the affairs of the Church and State of Great-Britain, during his life. By Robert Elliot, M.A.
Elliot, Robert, M.A.Date: 1715- Books
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The new annual register, or general repository of history, politics, and literature, for the year 1797. To which is prefixed, the history of knowledge, learning, and taste, in Great Britain; during the reign of King Charles II. - Part I.
Date: MDCCXCVIII. [1798]