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Obesity and Britain’s boys

Six young men and six experiences of being overweight. Find out how these boys and their loved ones feel about this stigmatising issue.

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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 child whose town rejected vaccines

Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.

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  • Foraminifera in Great Britain.
  • Railways in 1800, Great Britain.
  • Railways in 1800, Great Britain.
  • Papaveris capsulae grown in Great Britain (poppy)
  • The War Widows Association of Great Britain [sticker].
  • Census of Great Britain, 1851 : population tables.
  • Mortality rates; Crimea and Great Britain 1946-62
  • Veno's motor race round Great Britain / [Veno Drug Co.].
  • A house with a moat, Great Britain. Photograph, 1860/1890.
  • Brain: posterior view. Colour lithograph by Brocades Great Britain Ltd.
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