Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
When the sun goes down
Despite the country’s colonial and industrial dominion, the finest minds of Victorian Britain began to fear the devastating effects of declining natural resources. Even the death of the sun.
- Article
The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
- Book extract
Inside the Cold War mind
Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Great Britain: Parliament
Great Britain: ParliamentDate: 1812-1820Reference: MS.2593- Archives and manuscripts
Great Britain: Parliament
Date: 1621Reference: MS.805/17Part of: Miscellanea XII- Archives and manuscripts
Great Britain: Parliament
Date: 1621Reference: MS.805/7Part of: Miscellanea XII- Archives and manuscripts
Great Britain: Parliament
Date: 1621Reference: MS.805/8Part of: Miscellanea XII- Archives and manuscripts
Great Britain: Parliament
Date: 1620Reference: MS.805/6Part of: Miscellanea XII