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 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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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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Weight gains, serum protein levels, and health of breast fed and artificially fed infants, full term and premature : a clinical and biochemical study based on 946 infants and children at the Mothers' Hospital (Salvation Army) and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, London / B. Levin [and others].
Date: 1959
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A fasciculus, including the re-publication of Observations on the ligature of arteries, secondary hemorrhage, and amputation at the hip-joint, A letter to the Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty (1835), on the assimilation of the Medical Departments of the Army and Navy in respect to rank and pay, besides rendering the naval hospitals of Great Britain, in future, schools for the acquisition of perfect skill, dexterity, and fortitude in the performance of all surgical operations, with the Order in Council of 1805, and A description of the medico-chirurgical ambulance, the invention of Dr. Veitch, for the day of battle / by James Veitch ; with an able and interesting letter from Sir George Magrath.
Veitch, James, 1770?-1856.Date: 1851- Books
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The english registry, For the Year of our Lord, 1779; (by John Exshaw, Bookseller,) or, A Collection of English Lists; (much improved and enlarged) containing His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council; the Lords and Commons in Parliament; the Principal Officers of State; of the Army, and Navy; of the Law, and Trade; the Heads of Colleges and Professors, with many other Lists. To which are added, I. An Alphabetical List of the Rt. Hon. the House of Lords, with their Employments, Posts of Honour, &c. II. An Alphabetical List of the Counties, Cities, Boroughs, and Members for each; with their Connections, Employments, and Posts of Honour. III. A new and correct List of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, distinguishing the Rates. IV. The Royal Academy for Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture; the Society for the Encouragement of Manufactures, &c. With the Present State of Scotland. The Whole compiled and digested from the most authentic Lists, carefully corrected at the proper Offices; and from the best Information. Fitted to be bound with Watson's Almanack, and making with it, a present State of both Kingdoms.
Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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The english registry, for the year of our Lord, 1796; (by John Exshaw, Bookseller,) or, A Collection of English Lists; (greatly improved and enlarged) containing His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council; the lords and commons in Parliament; the Principal Officers of State; of the Army, and Navy; of the Law, and Trade; the Heads of Colleges and Professors, with many other Lists: To which are added, I. A list of the Rt. Hon. the House of lords, with their Employments, Posts of Honour, &c. II. An Alphabetical list of the Counties, Cities, Boroughs, and Members for each; with their Connections, Employments, and Posts of Honour. III. A New and Correct list of the Baronets of Great Britain, with their usual Places of Abode, &c. IV. A Complete list of the Royal Navy of England, as also the captains and commanders of the Navy. With the Present State of Scotland and America. The Whole compiled and digested from the most authentic lists, carefully corrected at the proper Offices; and from the best Information. Fitted to be bound with the Gentleman's and Citizen's Almanack, and making with it, a present State of both Kingdoms.
Exshaw, J. (John), 1750 or 1751-1827.Date: [1796]- Books
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The english registry, for the year of our Lord, 1795; (by John Exshaw, Bookseller,) or, A Collection of English Lists; (greatly improved and enlarged) containing His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council; the lords and commons in Parliament; the Principal Officers of State; of the Army, and Navy; of the Law, and Trade; the Heads of Colleges and Professors, with many other Lists. To which are added, I. A list of the Rt. Hon. the House of lords, with their Employments, Posts of Honour, &c. II. An Alphabetical list of the Counties, Cities, Boroughs, and Members for each; with their Connections, Employments, and Posts of Honour. III. A New and Correct list of the Baronets of Great Britain, with their usual Places of Abode, &c. IV. A Complete list of the Royal Navy of England, as also the Captains and commanders of the Navy. With the Present State of Scotland and America. The Whole compiled and digested from the most authentic lists, carefully corrected at the proper Offices; and from the best Information. Fitted to be bound with the Gentleman's and Citizen's Almanack, and making with it, a present State of both Kingdoms.
Exshaw, J. (John), 1750 or 1751-1827.Date: [1795]