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Medics, migration and the NHS

In the 1960s the NHS became Britain’s biggest employer. So to help fill all those jobs, the government brought in thousands of workers from abroad.

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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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Society, not Covid-19, makes us vulnerable

Rick Burgess coped with the death of his mother in February 2020 by immersing himself in the task of protecting his community from Covid-19 and challenging the government's failure to protect and support elderly and Disabled people during the pandemic.

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Deadly stinks and life-saving aromas in plague-stricken London

In the plague-ravaged London of 1665, could perfume really save your life?

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  • The Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London.
  • The Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London.
  • The Medical Society of London: John Coakley Lettsom presenting to the society the deeds of 3 Bolt Court, City of London. Stipple engraving by N.C. Branwhite, 1801, after S. Medley, 1800.
  • Bulletin of the Society of Medical History of Chicago.
  • Transactions of the Clinical Society of London.
  • Transactions of the Clinical Society of London.
  • Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London.
  • Members of the Canton Medical Society. Photograph, 1907.
  • Laboratory of Society of Apothecaries of London
  • Laboratory of Society of Apothecaries of London
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