Stories
- In pictures
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.
- Article
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.
- Article
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.
- Article
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
- Books
- Online
[Mortality rates in Manchester and Liverpool / William Royston]
Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association.Date: 1862- Archives and manuscripts
Mortality rates and life expectancy
Date: c.1970s-c.1987Reference: PP/EEP/C.40Part of: Pochin, Sir Edward Eric- Digital Images
- Online
Mortality rates; Crimea and Great Britain 1946-62
- Books
- Online
The report of the committee of the London Annuity Society, appointed to examine their state and progress and the ability of their fund to advance the widows annuities: containing, their progress for fourteen years; A Review Of Their Plan And Principles; With AN Attempt to ascertain the Rate of Mortality of their Members and Widows, and the Power of their Fund, by a New Method of Investigation. Together with two schemes For Advancing The Widows Annuities; And The Opinions Of The Gentlemen Calculators Upon These Schemes.
London Annuity Society.Date: Printed in the Year MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
- Online
Proposals for establishing a charitable fund in the city of London, By Voluntary Gifts and Loans of Mony, to Relieve Necessitous Persons from the Oppressions and Evil Practices of ill Men; providing poor People, within the several Parishes mentioned in the Weekly Bills of Mortality, with Coals and other Necessaries at a cheap Rate in the Winter and Time of War, maintaining those that are not able to get their Livelihood, setting others to Work, or Employ them to Sweep and Clean the Streets and other Places within the said Parishes, clear them from Beggars, make convenient Walks, and Repair the High-Ways in the Avenues of the said City; with Reasons for the same, &c. shewing the Benefits that will arise thereby to the Publick.
Date: [1706]