Stories
- Photo story
Obesity and Britain’s boys
Six young men and six experiences of being overweight. Find out how these boys and their loved ones feel about this stigmatising issue.
- Article
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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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
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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
- Archives and manuscripts
ECHS - European Collaborative Hospitals/Health Service Study
European Collaborative Hospitals/Health Service StudyDate: 1980-1995Reference: GC/191- Journals
The Hospitals year book.
- Books
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Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords on Metropolitan Hospitals, &c : with the proceedings of the Committee.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. Select Committee on Metropolitan Hospitals.Date: [1890?]- Books
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Third report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords on Metropolitan Hospitals, &c. : together with the proceedings of the Commitee, minutes of evidence, and appendix.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. Select Committee on Metropolitan Hospitals.Date: 1892?]- Books
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XXII. Report to the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress on the overlapping of the work of the Voluntary General Hospitals with that of Poor Law Medical relief / by Norah B. Roberts.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909