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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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
Catalogue
- Journals
Medical tribune, Great Britain.
- Books
Pandemic influenza : science to policy / The Royal Society, The Academy of Medical Sciences.
Royal Society (Great Britain). Science Policy Section.Date: 2006- Books
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The military needs of Great Britain.
Brunton, Thomas Lauder, Sir, 1844-1916.Date: 1903- 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]- 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