Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
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.
- Book extract
Why the NHS is worth saving
In this extract from his latest book, ‘Free For All’, Dr Gavin Francis poses challenging questions to be addressed if a health service that’s free for all at the point of use is to remain possible.
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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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
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Royal Institution of Great Britain
Date: 1971Reference: PP/CRI/E/1/19/5Part of: Francis Crick (1916-2004): archives- Journals
Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain.
Date: 1931-
- Books
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Report on American manuscripts in the Royal Institution of Great Britain.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts.Date: 1904-1909- Archives and manuscripts
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The Royal Institution of Great Britain
Date: 1975-1976Reference: PP/CRI/E/1/24/4Part of: Francis Crick (1916-2004): archives- Books
Archives of the Royal Institution of Great Britain in facsimile : Minutes of managers' meetings, 1799-1900.
Royal Institution of Great Britain.Date: 1971-1976