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‘Beds not Bombs’: the archive of the Medical Campaign against Nuclear Weapons
As East and West squared off at the height of the Cold War, the threat of a nuclear attack was all too real. Armed with stark facts about the potential impact of the bomb, a group of doctors and nurses… Continue reading
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Sex, religion and royalty: also dairy farming
Religion, sex, and royalty are supposed to be the perfect storm for creating a bestseller. Archives and Manuscripts have recently acquired some papers of Lord Dawson of Penn, physician to four monarchs (Edwards VII and VIII, Georges V and VI),… Continue reading
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NHS founder dies
Fifty years ago today, Aneurin Bevan MP died of cancer at the age of 62. His legacy, of course, is very much alive: as the UK enters a round of what we are warned will be ferocious cuts in government… Continue reading
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Patients Association Archive Available in the Wellcome Library
Readers may have observed recent media publicity following publication of the Patients Association’s report ‘Patients… not numbers, People… not statistics’ in August 2009. In this report the healthcare charity focused on poor standards of nursing and domiciliary care for the… Continue reading