Stories
- Article
The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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Why we no longer keep our dead at home
Today in the UK we rarely sit with, touch, or perhaps even see our loved ones after they’ve died. Past practices were very different and, Claire Cock-Starkey argues, were more helpful for those grieving.
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Birth, babies and boxes of memories
With memories of her baby in neonatal intensive care still fresh, Erin Beeston decides to unearth the poignant objects her family kept following births, going back as far as Victorian times.
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Milk trails round Euston
Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
British Social Hygiene Council
British Social Hygiene CouncilDate: 20th centuryReference: SA/BSH- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Sketches of the Retreat buildings and grounds by H.G. Hampton
Date: 1925Reference: RET/2/1/22/5Part of: The Retreat Archive- Archives and manuscripts
SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL {WOODSIDE HOSPITAL}
Date: 1750 - 2001Reference: H64- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Henry Wellcome Letter Book 5
Date: Jan 1899 - Aug 1901Reference: WF/E/01/01/05Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
The Martyrdom of Edith Cavell a poem by Captain J W Bowen
Date: early 20th century - mid 20th centuryReference: SA/NFN/C/14Part of: Nation's Fund for Nurses