Stories
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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.
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Uncovering experiences of dementia
Focusing on three 19th-century women’s case notes, Millie van der Byl Williams explores how our definition of dementia has changed.
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The solidarity of sickness
Visiting an injured friend in hospital prompts writer Sinéad Gleeson to reflect on the instant rapport forged between compatriots in the kingdom of the sick.
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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.
Catalogue
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Catalogue of the exhibition of old, rare, and curious books, manuscripts, autographs, etc. held in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the public library of Victoria.
State Library of Victoria.Date: 1906- Books
Scientific instruments on display / edited by Silke Ackermann, Richard L. Kremer, Mara Miniati.
Date: [2014]- Pictures
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Doctor Smith, an Australian surgeon, sitting outside a shack, reading a book. Photograph by T.J. Washbourne, ca. 1870/1888.
Washbourne, Thomas J., active approximately 1870-1888.Date: [between 1870? and 1888?]Reference: 35508i- Books
The one hundred and thirty-ninth annual report of the state of the Royal Infirmary for the sick and lame poor of the counties of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham, from the 1st January to 31st December, 1889 : established April, 1751.
Royal Infirmary for the Counties of Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, and Durham.Date: 1890- Books
The one hundred and thirty-eighth annual report of the state of the Royal Infirmary for the sick and lame poor of the counties of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland and Durham, from the 1st January to 31st December, 1888 : established April, 1751.
Royal Infirmary for the Counties of Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, and Durham.Date: 1889