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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Born in the NHS
Despite underfunding, strikes and scandals, the first two decades of the 2000s has seen the British people’s love of and loyalty to the NHS soar.
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Vivekananda’s journey
How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.
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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.
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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- Books
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Annual report of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales.
Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners.Date: 1835-1847- Books
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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- Books
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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- Books
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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