Stories
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Drugs in Victorian Britain
Many common remedies were taken throughout the 19th century, with more people than ever using them. What was the social and cultural context of this development?
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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 painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
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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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Transactions of the Social Union. Formed for the improvement of civil society.
Social Union.Date: M.DCC.XC. [1790]- Books
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The Country spectator.
Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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This day is published, in a large handsome quarto volume, elegantly printed on fine vellum paper, price, in boards, 5l. with the prints coloured, or 3l. 3s. plain, a new work, entitled, Eccentric excursions through England and Wales. Containing all that is worthy the observation of a characteristic traveller, in a variety of cities, towns and villages in England and Wales. Comprising also a description of the inhabitants of each county, with an account of their various dresses, customs, manners, amusements, humours, habits, opinions, follies, &c. &c. Interspersed with curious anecdotes, epitaphs, &c. Embellished with upwards of one hundered humorous prints. By G.M. Woodward.
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.Date: [1798]- Books
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The universal masquerade: or, the world turn'd inside-out. Delineating and detecting the virtues and vices of mankind, From The Court to the Cottage, In all Professions, for the benefit of both sexes. Representing, I. A Perspective View of the Court and Courtiers; their Gallantries, Promises, and Entertainments display'd; as Gaming, Intriguing, Balls, Ridotto's and Assemblies. II. City Pride and Luxury; Fraud and Impositions of Vintners, Exchange - Brokers, Discounters, Lottery-Mongers, Insurers, &c. with the Trick practised by a Jew of the Alley on the D-ss of M-lb-b. III. The Foppery of Freemasonry, &c. IV. The Corruption of Magistracy exemplified, in a True Secret History of some Tr-Ing J-st-s, &c. V. Literary Bites; or, The Tricks of Author, Printers and Booksellers: with the Trials of many Criminals in Elysium, &c. VI. The two Temples of True and False Fame; the Pretensions of many Writers; with the Remarkable Receptions of Mr. Pope and Dr. Young. Vii. Fops, Epicures, &c. justly ridicul'd; and the notorious Impositions of Lawyers, Physicians, and Apothecaries detected. Viii. Fornication no Sin; or, Adultery a la Mode, defended in the Case of a First - Rate Keeper and a New-Made C-nt-Ess, &c. IX. A Sketch of the Last Judgment, whereat strict Justice is administred, and many Offenders now first brought to Light. By O. Sedgewick, Gent. ...
Sedgewick, O.Date: 1742- Books
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Deliverance from public dangers, a solemn call for a national reformation, set forth in a serious and compassionate address to the inhabitants of Great Britain and Ireland: Shewing, first, that our late wonderful deliverances, from the most imminent dangers, call aloud for a public and effectual repentance, and national reformation. Secondly, that the many national vices, still unrepented of, and publicly practised in these kingdoms, threaten us with more severe and terrible judgements. And, thirdly, that, if we will not break off our sins by righteousness, and our iniquities by a sober and godly life, we are not only guilty of the deepest ingratitude, but also of the greatest folly and madness; as such a conduct has a necessary tendency to bring on ourseves most certain and inevitable ruin and destruction. By a sincere lover of his country.
Sincere lover of his country.Date: M.DCC.XLVII. [1747]