Stories
- 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.
- Article
The leukaemia diagnosis I didn’t see coming
Treatment for leukaemia kept journalist Hannah Partos in isolation, like the female prisoner whose image inspired her to write this piece.
- Article
Can our sexual desires be transformed?
In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. One found that it couldn’t – and his discoveries led to a change in the law.
- 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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Hungary correspondence
Date: 1987-1990Reference: SA/ILE/G/2/21/1Part of: Archive of the International League Against Epilepsy- Archives and manuscripts
Hungary 1978
Date: September 1977-August 1978Reference: PP/MIA/G/2/7/25Part of: Professor Michael Ashburner: archives- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Hungary
Date: 1925Reference: RAMC/2063/5/5Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Hungary
Date: 1970Reference: PP/LOW/P/21Part of: Margaret Lowenfeld- Archives and manuscripts
Hungary
Date: Mar 1963-Dec 1973Reference: PP/RRM/A.5/30Part of: Macintosh, Sir Robert (1897-1989)