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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 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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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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Picturing mental health

Ron Hampshire created artworks while resident at Netherne psychiatric hospital. What can we learn from them?

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  • Total abolition of personal restraint in the treatment of the insane. A lecture on the management of lunatic asylums, and the treatment of the insane; delivered at the Mechanics' Institution, Lincoln, on the 21st of June, 1838; with statistical tables... / [Robert Gardiner Hill].
  • Total abolition of personal restraint in the treatment of the insane. A lecture on the management of lunatic asylums, and the treatment of the insane; delivered at the Mechanics' Institution, Lincoln, on the 21st of June, 1838; with statistical tables... / [Robert Gardiner Hill].
  • Reports upon Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, with statistical tables, for the year 1885.
  • Reports upon Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, with statistical tables, for the year 1885.
  • Reports upon Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, with statistical tables, for the year 1885.
  • Reports upon Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, with statistical tables, for the year 1885.
  • St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the interior of the women's ward, with many inmates and a member of staff. Coloured aquatint by J.C. Stadler after A.C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1809.
  • St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the interior of the women's ward, with many inmates and a member of staff. Coloured aquatint by J.C. Stadler after A.C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1809.
  • St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the interior of the women's ward, with many inmates and a member of staff. Coloured aquatint by J.C. Stadler after A.C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1809.
  • Claybury Asylum, Woodford, Essex: a nurses' day-room (?) Photograph by the London & County Photographic Co., [1893?].
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