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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The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
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Eugenics and the welfare state
Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.
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Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
Catalogue
- Journals
Medical tribune, Great Britain.
- Books
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Cremation in Great Britain : the modern cremation movement - Description of British crematories, etc. ... / [Cremation Society of England].
Cremation Society of England.Date: [1909]- Books
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The military needs of Great Britain.
Brunton, Thomas Lauder, Sir, 1844-1916.Date: 1903- Archives and manuscripts
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Cecil Beresford, Psychiatry in Great Britain Today (1959)
Date: 1959Reference: RET/5/9/9/2Part of: The Retreat Archive- Archives and manuscripts
Clark, John. A. - Drug Addiction in Great Britain Today with Special Reference to Prognosis
Date: 1963Reference: DGH1/6/18/43Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital