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 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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Eugenics and the welfare state
Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.
Catalogue
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Annual report of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales.
Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners.Date: 1835-1847- Journals
Annual report of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales.
Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners.Date: 1835-1847- Books
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume III. Minutes of evidence (49th to 71st days) being mainly the evidence of critics of the Poor Law and of witnesses representing Poor Law and charitable associations. With Appendix.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909- Books
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Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an Inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain : with appendices.
Chadwick, Edwin, 1800-1890.Date: 1842- Books
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Report of the Metropolitan Poor Law Inspectors' Advisory Committee on the Homeless Poor, to the Right Hon. Herbert Samuel ... president of the Local Government Board, 1914.
Great Britain. Metropolitan Poor Law Inspector's Advisory Committee.Date: 1915