Stories
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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.
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Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
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The tradesman who confronted the pestilence
The City of London, 1665. As the Great Plague hits the capital, John New faces a deadly dilemma.
Catalogue
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Reports of the medical officer of the Privy Council and Local Government Board. New series.
Great Britain. Privy Council.Date: 1874-- Books
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Report on swine-fever in Great Britain / by Professor Brown, Agricultural Department, Privy Council Office.
Great Britain. Agricultural Department.Date: 1886- Journals
Annual report of the Agricultural Department, Privy Council Office, on the contagious diseases inspection and transit of animals.
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Report of the Veterinary Department of the Privy Council Office for the year 1873 : with an appendix.
Great Britain. Veterinary Department.Date: 1874- Ephemera
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Weekly return of the reported cases of cattle plague in Great Britain. No.41, Week ending Saturday, August 11th, 1866 / by Authority of the Privy Council.
Date: 1866