"Health for all" : the origins of the National Health Service, 1848-1948 a fortieth anniversary retrospect catalogue of an exhibition held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 7 June to 2 September 1988 / Lindsay Granshaw.

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1988
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Credit: "Health for all" : the origins of the National Health Service, 1848-1948 a fortieth anniversary retrospect catalogue of an exhibition held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 7 June to 2 September 1988 / Lindsay Granshaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    13. 'The Grab-All.' [Pre-1914?] Photograph. Poster, National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations. John Johnson Collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford. In another attack on the Liberals and their measures, the Conservatives accused them of Socialism. 14. 'The unemployed and unemployable.' The dole queue. Photograph. Bibby's Annual, 1911. Mary Evans Picture Library. Unemployed men queue for the payments they were now entitled to under Lloyd George's legislation. Despite the jibe about being 'unemployable', these men, in order to qualify for assistance, would previously have held jobs. 15. 'A family group.' Cartoon in: Rt Hon David Lloyd George. The Case for the Insurance Bill. Being a speech delivered at Whitefield's Tabernacle, October 14, 1911. Reynolds's Newspaper, the Leading Radical Weekly. Trades Union Congress Library. HD 7102. The leaflet states that: 'It is now apparent that all Mr Lloyd George's great and beneficent financial schemes are closely related and spring directly from the great Budget of 1909, which the Peers tried to kill. They are all items in one vast policy to give freedom, health and opportunity for advancement to the whole of the People'. The emphasis is that the Great Budget of 1909, followed by the Bill to destroy the House of Lords' veto power, were the key to such reforms as the introduction of old age pensions and insurance. An additional reform that the Liberals advocated was the reform of Parliament—reducing Parliamentary terms from seven years to five and seeking the payment of MPs, so that they could be drawn from a wider social group.