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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Why pandemic denial is nothing new
Could today’s Covid-deniers be taking lessons from history? After all, it’s nearly 200 years since frustrations at a cholera-induced lockdown erupted in Sunderland.
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Cocaine, the Victorian wonder drug
Today, cocaine has a very poor public image as one of the causes of crime and violence. But for the Victorians it was welcomed as the saviour of modern surgery.
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Families fighting for justice
In 1962 a group of parents whose children had been affected by thalidomide began a decades-long battle in the law courts, the media and Parliament in order to win fair justice for all thalidomide survivors.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Local government training board
Date: 1988-1991Reference: SA/HEC/A/43/8/6/1Part of: Health Education Council and Health Education Authority- Archives and manuscripts
Local government training board
Date: 1988-1989Reference: SA/HEC/A/43/8/13Part of: Health Education Council and Health Education Authority- Journals
Local government abroad.
- Books
Local government / by A. S. MacNalty.
MacNalty, Arthur Salusbury, Sir, 1880-1969.Date: [1948]- Books
Local government and inequalities in health / Graeme Betts.
Betts, Graeme, 1955-Date: [1993], ©1993