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 Hull History Centre archive of Politics and Pressure Groups, from which some of this material is taken. If you have material which could be included please let me know. 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.
- Inspiration, Ideology, Evidence and the National Health Service David Hands
- Dr David Kerr 1923-2009 Secretary of the SMA Obituary by Tam Dalyell
- 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
- Red Book - the 1990 GP contract
- SHA Policy Digest 1988
- Dr. D. Elizabeth Hilliard 1903-2001 Secretary of the SMA
- Dr Cyril Taylor 1921-2000 President of the SHA
- The Patient's Charter for England 1991-1999
- Dr Di Chisholm 1955 - 1998 Director of Public Health for Central Manchester
- 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 Production and Reproduction of Scandals in Chronic Sector Hospitals 1981
- 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
- Democracy in the National Health Service 1974
- Labour Party Health Care Working Party report 1973
- Medical Care: Who gets the best service? 1971
- 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
- Private Practice within the National Health Service 1971
- PROPOSALS FOR REFORM - Campaign for a Democratic Health Service 1969
- Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Allegations of Ill - Treatment of Patients and other irregularities at the Ely Hospital, Cardiff. 1969
- Pickles of Wensleydale 1885-1969
- Enquiries into Allegations Concerning the Care of Elderly Patients in Certain Hospitals 1968
- Somerville Hastings FRCS MP 1878-1967 .Socialist Proposals for Health Reform in Inter-War Britain: the Case of Somerville Hastings
- A New Look at Medicine and Politics Enoch Powell 1966
- Socialist Charter for Health 1965
- The Case for Health Centres 1964
- Defend and Extend the NHS SMA 1962
- Drugs and the Health Service 1960
- 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
- Death in the Air 1956
- 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 Peckham Experiment by Innes H. Pearse, Lucy H. Crocker
- 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
- Making Medical History Charles W Brook 1946
- Now for Health D. Stark Murray and L. C. J. McNae The WHAT, WHY and HOW of the National Health Service 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)
- Your Health Mr Smith 1944? Stark Murray
- Hospital Management in Peace and War Somerville Hastings 1944
- Mr Willink's Lost Opportunity MPU April 1944
- A NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE White Paper February 1944
- Pharmacists in Health Centres, and dentisty September 1943
- Now or Never Stark Murray June 1943
- The Development of the Health Services Somerville Hastings Feb 1943
- The Beveridge Report November 1942
- Future of Medical Practice Somerville Hastings July 1942
- Birth of the National Health Service BBC Collection 1942 onwards
- A scheme for a state medical service Labour Party May 1942
- The Co-ordination of a National Medical Service August 1941
- Problems of the Post War Medical Practitioner June 1940
- From Panel to Public Service Somerville Hastings 24/2/1940
- Labour and the Hospitals November 1938
- Happiness in the Hospital October 1937
- Hospitals in the Wrong Places 1936
- Socialist Medical Association of Great Britain Constitution 1936
- The Evolution of a State Medical Service Somerville Hastings 16/3/1935
- The Socialist Doctor 1932-34
- A National Maternity Service November 1934
- ‘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
- For a Healthy London - election leaflet March 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
- Report of the Poor Law Commissioners on an enquiry into the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain Foreword 1842
- 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
- Dr William Harvey
- Poor Law 1601
HEALTH MINISTERS SINCE THE NHS WAS CREATED
- Aneurin Bevan (3 August 1945 - 17 January 1951)
- Hilary Marquand (17 January 1951 - 26 October 1951)
- Harry Crookshank (30 October 1951 - 7 May 1952)
- Iain Macleod (7 May 1952 - 20 December 1955)
- Robin Turton (20 December 1955 - 16 January 1957)
- Dennis Vosper (16 January 1957 - 17 September 1957)
- Derek Walker-Smith (17 September 1957 - 27 July 1960)
- Enoch Powell (27 July 1960 - 20 October 1963)
- Anthony Barber (20 October 1963 - 16 October 1964)
- Kenneth Robinson (18 October 1964 - 1 November 1968)
- Richard Crossman (1 November 1968 - 19 June 1970)
- Sir Keith Joseph (20 June 1970 - 4 March 1974)
- Barbara Castle (5 March 1974 - 8 April 1976)
- David Ennals (8 April 1976 - 4 May 1979)
- Patrick Jenkin (5 May 1979 - 14 September 1981)
- Norman Fowler (14 September 1981 - 13 June 1987)
- John Moore (13 June 1987 - 25 July 1988)
- Kenneth Clarke (25 July 1988 - 2 November 1990)
- William Waldegrave (2 November 1990 - 10 April 1992)
- Virginia Bottomley (10 April 1992 - 5 July 1995)
- Stephen Dorrell (5 July 1995 - 2 May 1997)
- Frank Dobson (3 May 1997 - 11 October 1999)
- Alan Milburn (11 October 1999 - 13 June 2003)
- John Reid (13 June 2003 - 6 May 2005)
- Patricia Hewitt (6 May 2005 - 27 June 2007)
- Alan Johnson (28 June 2007 - 5 June 2009)
- Andrew Burnham (5 June 2009 – 10 May 2010)
- Andrew Lansley (11 May 2010- present)
General Resources (and those covering more than 100 years)
- 60 years of the NHS - Ordinary people tell the story
- 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 Birmingham
- 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: Geoffrey Rivett
- Health Service History
- History and public-management reform
- History of Biomedicine
- 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 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
- The NHS: from post-war to post-crash 1948-2010
- UK Centre for the History of Nursing & Midwifery
- Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine
- Working Class Movement Library