Stories
- Article
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.
- Book extract
Why the NHS is worth saving
In this extract from his latest book, ‘Free For All’, Dr Gavin Francis poses challenging questions to be addressed if a health service that’s free for all at the point of use is to remain possible.
- 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
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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
National Childbirth Trust of Great Britain: I 1958
Date: 1958Reference: PP/GDR/D/248Part of: Dick-Read, Grantly- Archives and manuscripts
National Childbirth Trust of Great Britain: II 1959
Date: 1959Reference: PP/GDR/D/249Part of: Dick-Read, Grantly- Archives and manuscripts
National Childbirth Trust of Great Britain
Date: 1958-1959Reference: PP/GDR/D/248-249Part of: Dick-Read, Grantly- Books
World AIDS Day : a guide to events / [produced by the National AIDS Trust and the Health Education Authority].
Date: 1995
- Ephemera
- Online
WAD '93 : events 1 : World AIDS Day events October 1993 / Health Education Authority, National AIDS Trust, World AIDS Day.
Date: 1993