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Renaissance and Early Modern Medicine

WEBBrief Overview of Renaissance Period Medicine. The Renaissance (15th and 16th centuries) was a time of new ideas and fresh thinking. People began to challenge old …

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The Beveridge Report: Making the Welfare State

WEBThe Beveridge Report, 1942. The report ‘envisages a future of state and citizen co-operation’ that partly came out of the collectivism – the state, communities and people …

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Health • Through a Victorian Child's Eye • MyLearning

WEBVictorian hospitals were strict. Have a look at the image below giving the rules for patients.

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Campaign, Action and Reaction in the 18th and 19th Centuries

WEBThe Industrial Revolution completely reshaped British society in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries. Britain was already becoming wealthy from overseas trade and now people …

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World Explorer Isabella Bird • Leeds Explores the World

WEBIsabella Bird (married name Bishop) was an English explorer, writer and photographer. She was the first women to be made a Fellow at the Royal Geographical Society. Bird was …

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Coal Mining and the Victorians

WEBThe older children and women were employed as hurriers, pulling and pushing tubs full of coal along roadways from the coal face to the pit-bottom. The younger children worked …

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The Beveridge Report: Making the Welfare State

WEBWatch the film In Which we Serve (or part of it) or get the class to listen to the song London Pride. Both were written by Noel Coward in 1942, the same year as the Beveridge …

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Account from the 1842 Commissioners' Report Showing Health

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Bioaccumulation and Biomagnification

WEBBioaccumulation is when chemicals build up inside an animal over time. For example, if a lake is polluted with chemicals, the chemicals can be absorbed by the plants growing in …

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Housing and Health • Victorian Leeds • MyLearning

WEBDeadly diseases like Cholera, Typhoid and Small Pox were common in Leeds’ Victorian slums. A report for the Leeds Board of Health in 1833 showed that the poorest areas …

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Health • Coal Mining and the Victorians • MyLearning

WEBThe 1842 Commissioners' Report Showing Measurement of Collier Girls. The work that children did in the mines was very dangerous and the fact that there were often few …

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William Wilberforce: Biographical Overview

WEBThis chapter gives a brief overview of the life of William Wilberforce, with more detailed information in the following chapters. William Wilberforce was born in 1759 in Hull, East …

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The Beveridge Report: Making the Welfare State

WEBChurchill, the leader of the Conservative Party, coined the phrase 'from the Cradle to the Grave' in a radio broadcast in March 1943 to describe the need for some form of social …

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Rationing and Shortages • What Did WW2 Children Eat

WEBWW2 Boots Cafe Menu During Rationing. The Boots Cafe menu above, shows how being at war affected even the most basic of meals. The menu is peppered with asterisks, …

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Women at War: The Role of Women During WW2

WEBIn February 1944 there was a serious accident at the Royal Ordnance Factory in Kirby, Lancashire. In one building 19 workers, mainly women, were filling trays of anti-tank …

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Female Munitions Workers in WW1

WEBLike soldiers, factory workers wore tags, so that their bodies could be identified after an explosion. Roll of Honour for those Killed at the Barnbow Factory in 1916. The …

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How the First World War affected families

WEBWar Widows. Many of the women whose husbands, fiancés or boyfriends were killed in the First World War felt that they too had served their country by sacrificing their men to war, …

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The Beveridge Report: Making the Welfare State

WEBWilliam Beveridge's involvement in social security pre-dates his famous report. He played a key role in introducing a national system of labour exchanges in 1909 which helped to …

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