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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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Born in the NHS
Despite underfunding, strikes and scandals, the first two decades of the 2000s has seen the British people’s love of and loyalty to the NHS soar.
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The mind; its capabilities and cultivation : being the substance of a lecture delivered in the reading room of the Calver and Stony Middleton Mutual Improvement Society / by James Wills.
Wills, James (junior, of Sheffield)Date: 1859- Pictures
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Maitland Cecil Melville Wills posing in a black corset and heavy skirt.
Date: 1911Reference: 2044536iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Pictures
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Three young men, two in drag, posing in cowboy costumes.
Date: [1911]Reference: 2044535iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Books
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Sheffield musical festival. For the benefit of the General Infirmary. Under the Patronage of his grace the duke of Norfolk. His grace the duke of Devonshire. The right honourable the earl of Effingham. The right honourable earl Fitzwilliam. and The following Trustees of the Charity: Reverend James Wilkinson. C. H. Rodes, Esq. Samuel Shore, Junior, Esq. Vincent Eyre, Esq. G. B. Greaves, Esq. Thomas Walker, Esq. Richard Swallow, Esq. Thomas Rawson, Esq. Thomas Holy, Esq John Browne, M. D. The second performance at the church, on Wednesday, the 16th of October, 1800, consisting of a grand selection, in three parts.
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The chaplet of chearfulness, and company keeper's assistant. A select collection of songs for the entertainment of the bacchanal, lover, buck, sportsman, free manson, loyalist, soldier, and sailor: and for all those who would render themselves agreeable, divert company, kill care, and be joyous: where the high seasoned wit and humour will be a sufficient anology for a bad voice; and whereby such as have a tolerable one will be able to shine, without repressing the laugh of the merrily disposed, or offending the ear of the most chaste Virgin. Consisting of many valuable and real originals, not to be met with in any other collection: likewise, those sung at the theatres and gardens. To which is annexed, a collection of toasts, sentiments, and hob nobs new in use. With several newly coined but not yet current, this being the first delivery of them from the mint. By Euphrosyne. First part of the second vol. of apollo.
Euphrosyne.Date: 1763