Stories
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Homes for the hives of industry
By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Mayor of London
Date: 2005Reference: SA/DRS/B/2/132Part of: DrugScope- Books
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London : a directory of voluntary and community sector health services for women in London / Mayor of London.
London (England). Mayor.Date: 2002- Books
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By the mayor : the right honourable the lord mayor, and his brethren the aldermen of the city of London, considering how the infection of the plague is dispersed in divers and sundry places neere about this city, doe ... command all manner of persons ... to take notice of, and obserue these seuerall articles ensuing.
City of London (England). Lord MayorDate: 1630- Books
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By the mayor. Orders heretofore devised and agreed upon by the Right Honourable the lord mayor of the city of London, and conservator of the river of Thames and waters of Medway, and river Lee, for conservation and preservation of the river of Thames, and of the brood and fry of fish therein ...
City of London (England). Corporation. Lord Mayor.Date: 1741]- Archives and manuscripts
Correspondence 1660
Date: April-June 1660Reference: MS.5801Part of: Kingston-upon-Hull Corporation