Stories
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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 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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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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Why the NHS is worth saving
In this extract from his latest book, ‘Free For All’, Dr Gavin Francis poses challenging questions to be addressed if a health service that’s free for all at the point of use is to remain possible.
Catalogue
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Cyprianus Anglicus: or, the history of the life and death, of the most reverend and renowned prelate William, by divine providence, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England, and Merropolitan, Chancellor of the Universities of Oxon and Dublin, and one of the Lords of the Privy Council to His late most Sacred Majesty. King Charles, I. Second Monarch of Great Britain. Containing also The Ecclesiastical History of the Three Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, from His first Rising till His Death. By P. Heylyn, D. D. and Chaplain to Charles the First, and Charles the Second, Monarchs of Great Britain.
Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.Date: 1719- Books
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The funding of science and discovery centres : Government response to the Eleventh Report from the Science and Technology Committee, Session 2006-07 / House of Commons Innovations, Universities & Skills Committee.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Innovation, Universities & Skills Committee.Date: 2008- Books
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Research Assessment Exercise 1992 : membership of Assessment Panels / Universities Funding Council.
Great Britain. Universities Funding Council.Date: [1992]- Books
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Research Assessment Exercise 1992 : the outcome / Universities Funding Council.
Great Britain. Universities Funding Council.Date: [1992]- Books
First report on the effects of the NHS reforms on medical and dental education and research / Universities Funding Council, Medical Committee.
Universities Funding Council (Great Britain). Medical Committee.Date: 1991