Discusses the significance of oral history to the history of the development of health and welfare provisions. By focusing on individual experiences, as revealed through oral history approaches, the human dimensions of the history of medicine is explored. Oral history reveals the personal stories of innovation, policy shifts, training and treatment over a 60-year period of development, characterized by both continuity and change. This book includes discussion on: the end of the workhouse; professional education and training of midwives; HIV and AIDS; birth control; the role of the community...

This book critically examines the case for Britain fighting the Second World War and deals with many related questions. Should Britain have given a guarantee to Poland? Was it honoured? Did the War help the Jews? Was it intended to? What would have happened if Britain had not declared war on Germany? Was Churchill a warmonger, mainly interested in achieving fame and glory? What, if anything, did Britain win? Was it worth the cost of war? Does WW2 have implications for subsequent wars? Can we believe what the politicians tell us?

Many older people are uncomfortable with challenging the...