Dr Alana Skuse
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639 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 8 May
Dr Alana Skuse’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's basically the origins of the welfare system.
The other thing we have is hospitals.
And that's, again, driven by war because the civil wars, you need hospitals for people.
It's a whole propaganda thing of who has the best hospitals.
So you get more hospitals being used as training centres and more hospitals in general.
So at the end of the 17th century, you get new hospitals or expansions of hospitals like Chelsea, St Thomas, Guy's, Westminster.
They're all produced during that period.
So we have quite a lot of hangover from that time in the good as well as the horrible stuff that we always think about.
Yeah, he completely dismantled the health system.
Yeah.
I mean, health care is a strong word, but kind of not throwing rocks at the disabled.
That's...
Yeah.
If they go back to their home parish, the home parish now has to do something to try and take care of them.
Oh, so that just became a law?
Yeah, that's where we get passports from because it's the pass that lets you get through the port and then like through the country and back to your home village or whatever.
Because otherwise being a vagrant was illegal.
One, two, three, four, five, six, six.
This is so much better than my students.
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