NHS

Nurses serve lunch to patients at a Birmingham hospital, 1939. (Photo by Humphrey Spender/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Paying for healthcare: life in Britain before the ‘free’ NHS

Listening in: a doctor uses a stethoscope to examine a patient in 1948. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

The birth pains of the NHS

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Mona Baptiste, a Trinidad-born blues singer

“London is the place for me”: David Olusoga on the Windrush generation

N Dubois de Chémant demonstrating his own, and a grotesque female patient's false teeth, to a prospective male patient with grossly disfigured teeth. (Wellcome Collection)

A bite-sized history of dentistry

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The painful truth about rationing in the NHS

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Does history support the argument for NHS reform?

Labour politician Aneurin Bevan, the chief architect of the National Health Service, 20 August 1945. (Photo by John F Stephenson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

The NHS: what can we learn from history?