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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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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.

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London, city of lost hospitals

Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.

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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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  • Royal Institution of Great Britain, Albemarle-street, August 30, 1841 : the extended and practical course of chemical lectures and demonstrations for medical and general students, delivered in the laboratory of this institution by professor Brande and E. Solly, jun., esq., will commence on Tuesday, the 5th of October at nine in the morning... / Joseph Fincher.
  • Public health.
  • [Leaflet advertising devil's claw as a herbal cleanser, detoxifier and for rheumatic conditions].
  • [Leaflet advertising devil's claw as a herbal cleanser, detoxifier and for rheumatic conditions].
  • [Business card for Claud Manfull, "consulting herbalist" in Nottingham].
  • League of Nations' course for overseas health officers, Great Britain, February to April 1924: group portrait of attendees on the steps of the Palace of Nations, Geneva. Photograph, 1924.
  • National Institute of Medical Research: the staff. Photograph, 1940.
  • Hundred Years' War: surgeons and craftsmen of surgical instruments being forced to go with the English army as part of the 1415 invasion of France. Gouache painting by A. Forestier, 1913.
  • Hundred Years' War: surgeons and craftsmen of surgical instruments being forced to go with the English army as part of the 1415 invasion of France. Gouache painting by A. Forestier, 1913.
  • Hundred Years' War: surgeons and craftsmen of surgical instruments being forced to go with the English army as part of the 1415 invasion of France. Gouache painting by A. Forestier, 1913.
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