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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How music opens the doors of memory and the mind
People living with dementia can often still listen, perform or move to music. What does this tell us about how memories are formed?
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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science. Edinburgh meeting, 1863 / Edited by George W. Hastings.
National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain)Date: 1864- Journals
Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science.
Date: 1858-- Books
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Should the principle of the Contagious Diseases' Act be applied to the civil population? : a paper read at the meeting, at Bristol, of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, October 4, 1869 / by Berkeley Hill.
Hill, Berkeley, 1834-1892.Date: 1870- Archives and manuscripts
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Printed Programme for the 8th Annual Meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science at York, 22-29 September 1864
Date: 1864Reference: RET/8/11/7Part of: The Retreat Archive- Books
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Note on the aboriginal races of Australia : a paper read at the annual meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, held at York, September, 1864.
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910.Date: 1865