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‘Needs tactful and sympathetic treatment’: Mental health during …

WebPrivate Smith was evacuated to the Royal Victoria Hospital at Netley, where he was diagnosed with neurasthenia. Smith’s records give a pre-war history of mental ill …

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Using archives to improve mental wellbeing

WebChange Minds is a collaboration between Norfolk Record Office , the Restoration Trust, and Together for Mental Wellbeing. Using the digitised 19th century …

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The Beveridge Report and the foundations of the Welfare State

WebThe Five Great Evils. The Beveridge Report, to quote Conservative Chancellor Kingsley Wood, is ‘lengthy’ 1 , a detailed survey of the state of welfare in …

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Fighting the ’flu, 1918-1919 (Part one)

WebThis is the first of a two-part blog exploring the records at The National Archives that can help us understand the impact of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic. …

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Hannah More: A woman of letters

WebHannah More was a Christian activist and philanthropist. Her sociable life in Britain’s major social centres, London and Bath, enabled her to use her closeness to the …

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The Great Smog of 1952

WebThis year marks the 70th anniversary of the Great Smog of London, which occurred between 5-9 December 1952. The event was of great significance in the history …

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Electro-therapeutic cures in the Victorian Age

WebThe Victorian period saw the introduction of countless imaginative and bizarre electronic devices that promised to transform lives as theoretical understandings …

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Food for thought

WebFor some families, the Second World War brought positive changes to their nutritional intake. Before 1939, working-class families consumed just half the calcium of …

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HIV/AIDS and the LGBTQ+ community: Education, care and support

WebMaterials included throughout, held at The National Archives and provided by Switchboard Archives, demonstrate the importance of education, care and support, and …

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Improving the nation’s stock for ‘Great and Greater Britain’: …

WebThe practice of eugenics - that is, selectively encouraging people with what are perceived as more desirable hereditary traits to reproduce and discouraging …

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‘Peace to millions of women’: A history of the cervical smear test

WebThis blog, published as part of Cervical Screening Awareness Week (15-21 June 2020), looks at records held at The National Archives that provide insight into how …

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Thalidomide: Limb-fitting centres

WebThalidomide was one of the worst man-made medical disasters in history and had far-reaching medical and social consequences. Manufactured by the German …

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Kicking the habit: Government’s first anti-smoking campaigns

WebThis month is Stoptober – an annual media campaign started by Public Health England in 2012 to encourage people to tackle their addiction to nicotine. Sixty …

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A celebration of cats: The creative brilliance of artist Louis Wain

WebLouis Wain was an artist who achieved great fame and success in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for his drawings of anthropomorphic cats. He was born in …

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‘Discharged to Duty’: First World War medical records

WebX-ray of cadet Theophilus Talbot’s injured right hand: MH 106/2175/39. Other cases paint vivid pictures simply through the words they contain. On 10 January 1917, …

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Appealing against conscription

WebThe first thing assumed, when thinking of people who were attempting to gain exemption from military service, is that the majority must be conscientious objectors. …

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Flixborough, 1 June 1974

WebDuring the late afternoon on 1 June 1974 the temporary bypass pipe ruptured, and a huge quantity of cyclohexane leaked from the pipe, forming a vapour …

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