Stories
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Befriending heavy breathers
Read the fascinating story behind the rare manual that helped volunteers on one of Britain’s first free telephone helplines to deal with masturbating callers.
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Graphic battles in pharmacy
James Morison’s campaign against the medical establishment inspired a wave of caricatures mocking his quack medicine.
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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.
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NHS Blue: the colour of universal healthcare
The 1980s and 1990s saw ideas from the world of business infiltrating the NHS, including the introduction of an internal market, followed by a corporate branding exercise.
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Report on American manuscripts in the Royal Institution of Great Britain.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts.Date: 1904-1909- Books
Final report / Royal Commission on Gambling.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Gambling.Date: 1978- Books
First report / Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution.Date: [1971]- Books
Final report / Royal Commission on Unemployment Insurance.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Unemployment Insurance.Date: 1932- Books
Report of the Royal Commission on Noxious Vapours.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Noxious Vapours.Date: 1878