Stories
- Article
Transforming the decorative into dissent
Discover how embroidered messages by two ‘troublesome’ women in 19th-century asylums are mirrored in the therapeutic quilting work of writer Rachel May.
- Article
The girl with no name
When a now anonymous teenager sold her tooth for transplant, she couldn’t have predicted that she’d end up at the heart of a troubling story about 18th-century beauty ideals.
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Dirt, disease and the Inspector of Nuisances
In the days when ‘bad air’ was thought to spread disease, dozens of Inspectors of Nuisances ceaselessly struggled against the perils of dirt – both visible and invisible.
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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
- Books
The workhouse / M.A. Crowther.
Crowther, M. A. (Margaret Anne)Date: 1992- Books
The workhouse / Norman Longmate.
Longmate, Norman, 1925-2016.Date: 1974- Books
The workhouse cookbook / Peter Higginbotham.
Higginbotham, Peter.Date: 2008- Books
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The workhouse and its medical officer / by Alfred Sheen.
Sheen, Alfred.Date: 1890- Books
The workhouse : a study of poor-law buildings in England / by Kathryn Morrison.
Morrison, Kathryn A.Date: [1999], ©1999