Stories
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Drugs in Victorian Britain
Many common remedies were taken throughout the 19th century, with more people than ever using them. What was the social and cultural context of this development?
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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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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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Eugenics and the welfare state
Indy Bhullar explores the ideas of William Beveridge and Richard Titmuss, who were strongly influenced by eugenic thinking, and yet championed the idea of the welfare state.
Catalogue
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Correspondence with the Department of Health and Social Services
Date: 1980 - 1981Reference: SA/FPA/C/F/7/3/3Part of: Family Planning Association- Books
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Second report of Her Majesty's Commissioners for inquiring into the housing of the working classses : Scotland.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Housing of the Working Classes.Date: 1885- Books
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Address to the sovereigns of Europe etc. etc. In two parts. By Obadia Prim. Part second. The first part contains an Appeal to the Sovereigns of Europe, to Proprietors, Merchants and all Well - wishers of social order - with a sketch of the Conduct of the Legislators of France during the Revolution. The second part contains a Letter to Bnonaparte on his Military and Political Conduct - To which are annexed I0 The principles of morality as decreed and acknowledged by the different legislative bodies of France. II0 A summary, in order of dates, of the most remarkable crimes committeed since the beginning of the Revolution - a table of the contributions, requisitions, forced loans etc.
Winsor, F. A. (Frederick Albert), 1763-1830.Date: [1798]- Archives and manuscripts
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Letters between the Propaganda Department and J B S Haldane's Secretary
Date: Jun 1947 - Aug 1947Reference: HALDANE/4/8/1/33Part of: Haldane Papers- Books
Social class differences in Britain / Ivan Reid.
Reid, Ivan.Date: 1981