Stories
- Article
The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
- Article
Keeping death close
Scattering her father’s ashes, Lauren Entwistle found herself longing for something physical that proved he once was a living, breathing person. Here she reflects on the objects that help us to grieve and remember.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
- Photo story
Trans masculinity on the record
Curator of the Museum of Transology in Brighton E-J Scott tells the story behind a few of the 250 objects from the collection, and the powerful effect they had on him as he put trans lives on the record.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Copy of a document dated 1665, relating to a dispute between the town authorities of Arras and the Religious at the hospital
Date: 1665Reference: MS.980/6Part of: Arras: Hospitals- Archives and manuscripts
Copy of 'Extrait du Régistre mémorial de la Ville d'Arras 1565', concerning an agreement to establish a school: made between the Town Corporation and the Religious of the hospital
Date: 1565Reference: MS.980/4Part of: Arras: Hospitals- Books
Beyond Nightingale : nursing on the Crimean War battlefields / Carol Helmstadter.
Helmstadter, CarolDate: 2020- Books
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Monasticon anglicanum, or, The history of the ancient abbies, and other monasteries, hospitals, cathedral and collegiate churches, in England and Wales : with divers French, Irish, and Scotch monasteries formerly relating to England / collected, and published in Latin, by Sir William Dugdale, Knight ..., in three volums; and now epitomized in English, page by page; with sculptures of the several religious habits.
Dugdale, William, 1605-1686Date: 1693
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Monasticon Anglicanum: a history of the abbies and other monasteries, hospitals, frieries, and cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales; also of all such Scotch, Irish and French monasteries, as were in manner connected with religious houses in England / Originally pub. in Latin by Sir William Dugdale...[Now ed., enriched with a large accession of materials taken from leiger books, chartularies, rolls, and other documents preserved in the national archives, public libraries, and other repositories; the history of each religious foundation in English being prefixed to its respective series of Latin charters. By John Caley...Henry Ellis...and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel.
Dugdale, William, 1605-1686.Date: 1846