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Lifeboats - 200 years of the RLNI
A selection of images from The Francis Frith Collection of lifeboats and the brave men and women who risk their lives to go to the aid of those in danger on the sea. (read)
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How to keep in touch with us.Healthcare
Published on July 9th, 2023
Britain's National Health Service is 75 years old this year. In this feature we bring you archive photographs connected with health and healthcare, dating from c1897 to the 1950s.
This selection shows healing wells and spa towns; elderly residents of an almshouse; an early chemist's shop and a travelling 'street doctor'. The selection moves into the 20th century with some poignant views of military hospitals from the First World War and patients at the sanatoriums which treated people suffering from tuberculosis, that great scourge of the past, and then moves on to post-1948 views of nurses and patients.
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