Stories
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Vivekananda’s journey
How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.
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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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Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
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The pain that punished feminists
In a society that viewed getting the vote, and pursuing an education and career, as unnatural goals for women, the pain of endometriosis was viewed as nature’s retribution.
Catalogue
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Annual report of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales.
Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners.Date: 1835-1847- Books
Pauper capital : London and the Poor Law, 1790-1870 / David R. Green.
Green, David R., 1954-Date: [2010], ©2010- Books
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Report of law committee under remit of the Parochial Board of the city parish of Edinburgh anent the Board's right to poorhouse grounds, and to other grants and mortifications for the use of the poor.
Date: 1861- Books
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Reports on the sanitary state of the labouring classes : as affected chiefly by the situation and construction of their dwellings, in and about the metropolis ; extracted from the fourth and fifth annual reports of the Poor Law Commissioners.
Date: 1840- Books
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The facts bearing on the claim of the poor to 1. The Poorhouse grounds and buildings; 2. Paul's work mortification; and 3. Trinity Hospital : and dissent from the report of the Law Committee of the Council refusing the poor's claims / by Councillor Curror.
Edinburgh (Scotland). Parochial Board.Date: 1862