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Hands-on healthcare

A young hospital volunteer feared her contribution was a long way from the serious business of real healthcare. But time spent painting patients’ nails proved to be a valuable contribution to life on the ward.

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Reclaiming my story

Sharing her story of mental illness and treatment with trainee social workers has helped Caroline Butterwick make sense of her past, and continues to be a positive part of her life today.

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Doctor in the house

A house is not always a home – sometimes it’s impermanent, impersonal. But other aspects of the itinerant life can be the source of a sense of home.

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Medics, migration and the NHS

In the 1960s the NHS became Britain’s biggest employer. So to help fill all those jobs, the government brought in thousands of workers from abroad.

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  • In a British Hospital-Train. Drawing from official photographs.
  • World War One: a hospital train: wash basins. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • World War One: a hospital train: seating for patients. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Boer War: wounded soldiers lying inside a hospital train. Halftone, c.1900.
  • A Swiss hospital train, World War I: interior view of a converted goods train, used to transport severely wounded prisoners of war. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • A Swiss hospital train, World War I: interior view of a converted goods train, used to transport severely wounded prisoners of war. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Boer War: the dispensary and surgery in a hospital train. Halftone, c. 1900.
  • World War One: a hospital train: patients lie in suspended beds. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • World War One: Royal Naval hospital train: a stretcher is carried into an ambulance. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Boer War: wounded soldiers being escorted off the hospital train at Durban from Ladysmith. Watercolour by F. Dadd, 1899.
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