Stories
- Photo story
Generation portraits
Photographer Julian Germain’s major project focusing on portraits of multi-generational families came to a sudden halt during the various Covid-19 lockdowns. Here families celebrate coming together again in words and images.
- Article
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.
- Article
Journeying home
A serious health scare was the catalyst to Chris beginning the process of understanding his experiences more clearly, and using that new insight to help other intersex people.
- Article
The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Appointments as Staff Surgeon 1st class, Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals and Inspector General of Hospitals
Date: 1847-1856Reference: MS.6891/2-4Part of: Macandrew (later Macgregor), Sir John (1791-1866), Inspector General of Military Hospitals- Archives and manuscripts
Hospitals, health premises, General correspondence
Date: 1983-1984Reference: SA/ASH/P/1/11/1Part of: Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)- Archives and manuscripts
Ms. notes re General Hospitals
Date: c.1940sReference: RAMC/408/4/5Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Commission as Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals
Date: 1868Reference: RAMC/483/7Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Archives and manuscripts
National, Wycombe General and Northampton Hospitals
Date: Mid to late 20th centuryReference: PP/GWP/E/3/29Part of: Pickering, Sir George White