Stories
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Obesity and Britain’s boys
Six young men and six experiences of being overweight. Find out how these boys and their loved ones feel about this stigmatising issue.
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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 colonist who faced the blue terror
India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.
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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.
Catalogue
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XXXII. Reports on visits paid by the Labour Colonies Committee to certain institutions in Holland, Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1910- Books
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Fissura sterni congenita : new observations and experiments made in Amerika [i.e. America] and Great Britain with illustrations of the case and instruments / by Eugène Groux.
Groux, E. A. (Eugène Alexandre), 1833-1878.Date: 1859- Books
Cottage hospitals, general, fever, and convalescent : their progress, management, and work in Great Britain and Ireland, and the United States of America, with an alphabetical list of cottage hospitals / by Sir Henry Burdett.
Burdett, Henry C., Sir, 1847-1920.Date: [1896?]- E-journals
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Victorian studies
Date: 1957-- Books
District heating in American housing : the report of a mission to the United States of America February - April 1947.
Date: 1949