Stories
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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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Inside the Cold War mind
Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.
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The psychological impact of nuclear war
How would you hold up psychologically if a nuclear bomb was dropped? Discover the British government’s secret predictions from the 1980s.
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
Catalogue
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The War Widows Association of Great Britain [sticker].
War Widows Association of Great Britain.Date: [1992?]- 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- Books
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XXXIII. Foreign and colonial systems of poor relief with a memorandum on the relief of famines in India.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1910- Books
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A collection of treaties of peace, commerce, and alliance, between Great-Britain and other powers, from the year 1619 to 1734. To which is added, a discourse on the Conduct of the Government of Great - Britain, in Respect to Neutral Nations. By the Right Hon. C. Jenkinson, Secretary at War. The whole being a supplement to A collection of treaties, between Great Britain and other Powers, from the Revolution, in 1688. In Two Volumes.
Great Britain.Date: [1781]- Books
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XVII. Report by Miss Constance Williams and Mr. Thomas Jones on the effect of outdoor relief on wages and the conditions of employment.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909