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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The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
Catalogue
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Proceedings of the Philological Society
Philological Society (Great Britain)Date: [1846-1854]- Books
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The philological fund. Under the patronage of Sir Richard Hill, bart. M.P. president. The Rev. Basil Woodd, M.A. and Thomas Collingwood, Esq. ...
Philological Society (Fitzroy Square, London, England)Date: 1795?]- Books
Catalogue of printed books published before 1932 in the library of the Royal Asiatic Society.
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Library.Date: 1940- Books
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Liber cure cocorum / Copied and edited from the Sloane ms. 1986 by Richard Morris.
Date: 1862- Journals
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French studies
Date: 1947-