Stories
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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
- In pictures
Pepys and the plague
Through its long history, London has survived some enormous epidemics. During the 1665 Great Plague of London, the city burned, shops closed, the streets emptied and bodies piled up. Read Samuel Pepys’s account of how the city pulled through.
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The making of ‘Quacks’
How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?
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Building a dream in the garden suburbs
In the late 19th century a ‘garden suburb’ promised a retreat from London’s dirt and crowds. See how this new concept was developed to appeal to the health concerns of the literary classes.
![[Handbill (20 December 1886) for a variety show at the Canterbury Theatre of Varieties (Westminster Bridge Road, London, England) featuring the 8 foot tall Belgian giant Alfredo Devartos as well as Testo (strong man) and Onri].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2848034x_EPH_499A_54_0001.jp2/full/160%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Domine dirige nos / [Corporation of the City of London].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b15502867_0002.jp2/full/420%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Domine dirige nos / [Corporation of the City of London].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b15502867_0001.jp2/full/420%2C/0/default.jpg)
Catalogue
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The threepenny doctor : Doctor Jelley of Hackney / Inner City Theatre Company.
Inner City Theatre Company.Date: [1983]
- Ephemera
- Online
A general list of the members of the Royal College of Surgeons in England : members who reside and practise, or who have resided and practised, in or within seven miles of the City of London ... members who do not reside or practise, in or within seven miles of the City of London.
Royal College of Surgeons of England.Date: 1808- Pictures
City plan of the vicinity of St Paul's church, London. Etching, 1773.
Date: 1773Reference: 25205i
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Whittington College (almshouses), City of London: perspective view. Etching, c. 1835.
Date: 1835Reference: 24471i
- Books
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Report of the Committee to the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London, acting as the Burial Board for the said City, upon the address of the Archdeacon of London, on November 8th, 1855, to the churchwardens of the City of London and its liberties, on the subject of the City of London Cemetery, at Little Ilford.
City of London (England). Commissioners of Sewers.Date: 1855