Stories
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Fraught fertility and making royal babies
Producing a male heir has been seen for centuries as a queen’s most important role. Here Estelle Paranque explores the lives of four queens whose route to royal motherhood was far from smooth.
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The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
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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.
Catalogue
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[Mortality rates in Manchester and Liverpool / William Royston]
Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association.Date: 1862
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Mortality rates; Crimea and Great Britain 1946-62
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Mortality rates and life expectancy
Date: c.1970s-c.1987Reference: PP/EEP/C.40Part of: Pochin, Sir Edward Eric
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Child care; Infant Mortality rate 1851-1901
- Archives and manuscripts
A Report on an Investigation into the Factors Related to the Neonatal Death rate and Stillbirth rate in the City of Cardiff in 1956 by Marie Richards
Date: 1958Reference: PP/DAL/B/2/1/3Part of: Dally, Ann Gwendolen, and Dally, Peter John