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Obesity and Britain’s boys

Six young men and six experiences of being overweight. Find out how these boys and their loved ones feel about this stigmatising issue.

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The poor child’s nurse

Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.

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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 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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Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. Appendix.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909-1913
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume III. Minutes of evidence (49th to 71st days) being mainly the evidence of critics of the Poor Law and of witnesses representing Poor Law and charitable associations. With Appendix.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Vol. XIV. Report to the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress on Poor Law medical relief in certain unions in England and Wales. / By John C. McVail.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XXII. Report to the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress on the overlapping of the work of the Voluntary General Hospitals with that of Poor Law Medical relief / by Norah B. Roberts.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XXVIII. Reports of visits to Poor Law and charitable institutions and to meeting of local authorities in the United Kingdom.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909

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Obesity and Britain’s boys

The poor child’s nurse

The birth of Britain's National Health Service

The child whose town rejected vaccines

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Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. Appendix.

Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume III. Minutes of evidence (49th to 71st days) being mainly the evidence of critics of the Poor Law and of witnesses representing Poor Law and charitable associations. With Appendix.

Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Vol. XIV. Report to the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress on Poor Law medical relief in certain unions in England and Wales. / By John C. McVail.

Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XXII. Report to the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress on the overlapping of the work of the Voluntary General Hospitals with that of Poor Law Medical relief / by Norah B. Roberts.

Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XXVIII. Reports of visits to Poor Law and charitable institutions and to meeting of local authorities in the United Kingdom.