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 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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The hidden history of homesickness
Gail Tolley delves into the history of homesickness and discovers that its rich past holds a clue to how we view the experience today.
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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
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A collection of treaties of peace, commerce, and alliance, between Great-Britain and other powers, from the year 1619 to 1734. To which is added, a discourse on the Conduct of the Government of Great - Britain, in Respect to Neutral Nations. By the Right Hon. C. Jenkinson, Secretary at War. The whole being a supplement to A collection of treaties, between Great Britain and other Powers, from the Revolution, in 1688. In Two Volumes.
Great Britain.Date: [1781]- Videos
The pill : prescription for revolution.
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An appeal to the justice and interests of the people of Great Britain, in the present disputes with America. By an old Member of Parliament.
Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
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The secret history of White-Hall, from the Restoration of Charles II. down to the abdication of the late K. James. Writ at the Request of a Noble Lord, and convey'd to him in Letters, by - late Secretary-Interpreter to the Marquiss of Louvois, who by that means had the Perusal of all the Private Minutes between England and France for many Years. The whole consisting of Secret Memoirs, which have hitherto lain conceal'd, as not being discoverable by any other Hand. Published from the original papers. In two parts. By D. Jones, gent.
Jones, D. (David), active 1676-1720.Date: M.DCC.XVII. [1717]- Books
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His Majesty's most gracious speech to both Houses of Parliament, on Tuesday the twelfth day of August, 1746.
Great Britain. Sovereign (1727-1760 : George II)Date: 1746