Stories
- Book extract
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.
- Article
How slums make people sick
A newly gentrified corner of Bermondsey leaves little clue to its less salubrious history. But a few intrepid writers recorded the details of existence in one of London’s most squalid slums.
- Article
The tower in fiction, film and life
The high-rise estates born of postwar idealism soon became symbols of crime and squalor. But after one terrible tragedy, public bodies are being forced to rethink our towers.
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Pain and the power of activism
Today, women with endometriosis have more access to better information than ever before. Jaipreet Virdi applauds the shared stories, online communities and self-help books empowering women in pain.
Catalogue
- Books
The culture of flushing : a social and legal history of sewage / Jamie Benidickson; foreword by Graeme Wynn.
Benidickson, Jamie.Date: [2007], ©2007- Archives and manuscripts
Unpublished papers by Jane Wyndham-Kaye – talks, drafts of articles, etc
Date: 1959-1984, n.dReference: SA/HVA/G.6/1Part of: Health Visitors' Association- Books
The international campaign against leprosy : 1948-2005 / Jo Robertson.
Robertson, JoDate: 2021- Archives and manuscripts
Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
Wellcome Trust; 1936-Date: 1910-2022Reference: WT- Archives and manuscripts
Lectures, Speeches and Seminar Papers, Notes, Typescripts, and Correspondence, 1970-1974
Date: 1970-1974Reference: PP/CDW/K.38-55Part of: Williams, Cicely Delphine (1893-1992)