History

This is a page of resources relating to the history of the SHA and of socialism and health generally. General websites are at the bottom, specific items in reverse chronological order at the top. Some of the material carries no date, so I have attempted to deduce a likely date. The archives of the Socialist Health Association and the Socialist Medical Association (we changed our name in May 1981) are held in the Brynmor John Library at the University of Hull, from which some of this material is taken. If you have material which could be included please let me know. We have a separate chronology of NHS reform. Unless otherwise stated the copyright for material on this site belongs to us. You are welcome to reproduce it so long as you give us the appropriate credit.

• General Election briefing 2005
• Dr Jonathan Miller's Radio 4 series Delivering healthcare in the twenty-first century
• Public accountability in today's health service Guy Daly 1996
• Feasible Socialism The National Health Service past, present and future by Dr Julian Tudor Hart (SHA 1994)
• Dr David Widgery 1947 - 1992. Widgery's writing
• The NHS at 50 - BMJ special
• Health, Wealth and Poverty Conference November 1992
• Two Paths for Medical Practice Julian Tudor Hart Sept 1992
  
• SHA Policy Digest 1988
• Dr. D. Elizabeth Hilliard 1903-2001 Secretary of the SHA
• Dr Cyril Taylor 1921-2000 President of the SHA
• Dr Di Chisholm 1955 - 1998 Director of Public Health for Central Manchester
• From Cradle to Grave - the first 50 years of the NHS - kept up to date by Geoffrey Rivett
• The Aids monolith 1987
• National Health Service Managment in the 1980s - Stephen Harrison
• Charter for Health SHA 1984
• Griffiths Report October 1983
• Dr Charles Brook 1901-1983
• The SMA and the Foundation of the National Health Service Dr Leslie Hilliard 1980
• The Black Report: Inequalities and Health 1980
• Royal Commission on the NHS 1979
• Dr David Stark Murray, Obituary 1977. President of the Socialist Medical Association 1951-1972, editor of Socialism and Health 1930-1972. The Right to Be Healthy - radio broadcast by Dr Murray, probably in 1971, as part of a campaign for a national health insurance in USA. Unfortunately marred by some terrible background music, and the file is 34 MB.
• David Ennals speech to the Socialist Medical Association 27 March 1977
• Open letter to David Ennals New Society 16 December 1976 Richard Wilkinson
• Health Centres the Next Step SMA 1975
• Dr Herbert Bach 1913-1971
• The Inverse Care Law, Dr Julian Tudor Hart, Lancet 1971 pp 405-412
• WHY A NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE? the part played by the Socialist Medical Association D. Stark Murray 1971
  
• PROPOSALS FOR REFORM - Campaign for a Democratic Health Service 1969
• Pickles of Wensleydale 1885-1969
• Somerville Hastings FRCS MP 1878-1967
• Defend and Extend the NHS SMA 1962
• Aneurin Bevan - a collection of materials 1945-60
• ORIGINS AND EARLY HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL MEDICINE (1930-57)Professor John Pemberton
• Henry Sigerist "the world's greatest medical historian." 1891-1957
• Join the Fight Against TB SMA c. 1955
• 'The Battle for Health' A Political History of the Socialist Medical Association, 1930-51 by John Stewart. Extracts from the text
• Pioneer Health Centre, Peckham or the Peckham Experiment, and Guardian story about it 1926-1950
• The birth of the NHS Trafford 5th July 1948
• Your Very Good Health
• The start of the NHS 1948
• BMA opposition to the NHS South Essex January 1948
• Medical Policy Association Briefing on the BMA referendum November 1946
• New Views On the Health Service 1945 Stark Murray
• The New Chapter August 1945
• A Health Service for the People May 1945
• Medical Policy Association SMA Briefing (?Winter 1944)
• Mr Willink's Lost Opportunity MPU April 1944
• A NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE White Paper February 1944
• Now or Never Stark Murray June 1943
• The Development of the Health Services Somerville Hastings Feb 1943
• The Beveridge Report November 1942
• Birth of the National Health Service BBC Collection 1942 onwards
• A scheme for a state medical service Labour Party May 1942
• From Panel to Public Service Somerville Hastings 24/2/1940
• Labour and the Hospitals November 1938
• Socialist Medical Association of Great Britain Constitution 1936
• The Evolution of a State Medical Service Somerville Hastings 16/3/1935
• ‘Malnutrition in England’ University College Hospital Magazine 1934 - John Pemberton
• Can we Afford to Leave the Nation's Health to Private Enterprise Somerville Hastings April 1931
• The Future of Medical Practice in England Somerville Hastings Jan 1928
• Interim Report on the Future Provision of Medical and Allied Services 1920 (Lord Dawson of Penn)
• Nurse Training at Plaistow Fever Hospital 1919
• A Few Reasons for Advocating a State Medical Service Scheme 1912
• Paper by Dr Esslemont - State Medical Service Scheme 2/10/1912
• National Insurance Act 1911
• Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow 1821 - 1902

"medicine is a social science and politics nothing but medicine on a grand scale."

• Charles Booth: Inquiry into the life and labour of the people in London (1886-1903)
• Charity Organisation Society: Chronology 1868-1912
• Rev Henry Hawkins 1825-1904
• Extracts from B. Seebohm Rowntree, Poverty: A Study of Town Life 1901
• Tredegar Medical Aid Society 1890
• Sir Edwin Chadwick (1800-1890) Inquiry into the sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain 1842 (PDF files on a Japanese website)
• William Budd and typhoid fever 1811-80
• The Destitute Sick (1832-67)
• Virchow's Report on the Typhus Epidemic in Upper Silesia 1848
• Poor Law Commission 1834-1847
• The Condition of the Working Class in England Frederick Engels 1845
• 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act
• Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
• The Speenhamland System 1795
• John Hunter 1728-1793
• Where a great proportion of the people are suffered to languish in helpless misery, that country must be ill-policed and wretchedly governed: a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
  Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1770
  
• Poor Law 1601

General Resources

(and any which cover more than 100 years)

Acts of the United Kingdom Parliament related to mental health policy and to other matters

Antiqua Medicina

British Medical Association -outline history

British Society for the History of Pharmacy

Bulletin of the History of Medicine

Centre for History in Public Health

Centre for the History of Medicine

Centre for Medical History (Exeter)

A Chronology of State Medicine, Public Health, Welfare and Related Services in Britain: 1066 - 1999

Collection of materials on Public Health in Britain 1691-1956 (This is a Japanese site. The texts are reproduced as pictures in PDF files, but there is some wonderful material - particularly relating to the work of Edwin Chadwick)

Classical Islamic Medicine

Development of the London Hospital System 1823-1982

England's first State "Imbecile Asylums" 1774-1900

Financing health care in Britain since 1939

From Cradle to Grave: fifty years of the NHS, Geoffrey Rivett

Health Service History

History and public-management reform

History of Biomedicine

Histories of Hospitals in the area of Greenwich

Key dates Health and Nursing Great Britain 1000 - 1899

Labour Health Policy

Labour Heritage

Labour History Group

MedHist - part of the Wellcome Library

The Metropolitan Asylums Board 1867-1930

National Archives - Health Departments

National Library of Medicine (USA)

NHS explained

NHS History - Geoffrey Rivett's site

Origins of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health

People's History Museum

Society for the Social History of Medicine

Storming the Citadel: from romantic fiction to effective reality - General practice in the valleys: Julian Tudor Hart

UK Asylums and Hospitals

UK Centre for the History of Nursing & Midwifery

Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine

Working Class Movement Library

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