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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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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.

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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 psychological impact of nuclear war

How would you hold up psychologically if a nuclear bomb was dropped? Discover the British government’s secret predictions from the 1980s.

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  • The Association that works for ALL war widows / War Widows Association of Great Britain.
  • The War Widows Association of Great Britain [sticker].
  • War Widows Association of Great Britain : member of Council of British Service and ex-Service Organisations, affiliated to National Council of Women [letterhead].
  • War Widows Association of Great Britain : member of Council of British Service and ex-Service Organisations, affiliated to National Council of Women : [introductory letter].
  • War Widows Association of Great Britain : member of Council of British Service and ex-Service Organisations, affiliated to National Council of Women : [introductory letter].
  • Report on the cattle plague in Great Britain during the years 1865, 1866, and 1867 : with appendix, tables, and diagrams showing the progress of the disease / prepared by the Veterinary Department of the Privy Council Office.
  • League of Nations' course for overseas health officers, Great Britain, February to April 1924: group portrait of attendees on the steps of the Palace of Nations, Geneva. Photograph, 1924.
  • First aid for fighting men : your life and those of your comrades may depend upon your having this card always at hand / by command of the Army Council, the War Office.
  • First aid for fighting men : your life and those of your comrades may depend upon your having this card always at hand / by command of the Army Council, the War Office.
  • National egg collection for our wounded soldiers and sailors : offices: 154, Fleet Street, London.
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