Stories
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
- Long read
Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
- Article
London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
- Article
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
- Archives and manuscripts
CO-ORD: Co-ordinating Campaign for the Defence of the 1967 Abortion Act
CO-ORD: Co-ordinating Campaign for the Defence of the 1967 Abortion ActDate: 1976-1998Reference: SA/CCD- Ephemera
- Online
Women wanted as ambulance drivers : offer your services to your local council or any branch of Women's Voluntary Services : Civil Defence / [Ministry of Labour and National Service?].
Date: [between 1939 and 1945]- Ephemera
Women wanted : to help the children from evacuated areas ... apply to your local council or local branch of the Women's Voluntary Services / [Ministry of Labour and National Service?].
Date: [between 1939 and 1945]- Books
Green sleeves, the story of WVS/WRVS / by Katharine Bentley Beauman.
Bentley Beauman, Katharine.Date: 1977- Books
The housewives' book of recipes & hints / W.V.S., Mirfield.
Date: [Between 1940 and 1945?]