Stories
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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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NHS strikes and the decade of discontent
When the social unrest of the 1970s spread to the NHS, dissatisfied staff challenged the status quo for the first time in quarter of a century.
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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
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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.
Catalogue
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Report of the Departmental Committee on the Employment of Prisoners. Pt. I, Employment of prisoners.
Great Britain. Home Office. Committee on the Employment of Prisoners.Date: 1933- Journals
Statistics of scientific procedures on living animals, Great Britain / presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for the Home Department by command of Her Majesty.
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Report of the Departmental Committee on the Employment of Children as Film Actors, in Theatrical Work and in Ballet / presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for the Home Department by Command of His Majesty, August 1950.
Great Britain. Departmental Committee on the Employment of Children as Film Actors, in Theatrical Work and in Ballet.Date: 1950- Journals
Annual report of the Department of Health for Scotland.
Date: 1930-1939- Books
Summary report / by the Department of Health for Scotland.
Date: 1941-1945