Stories
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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
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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.
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Parks and politics in Brixton’s past and present
Gentrification is creeping along Railton Road, but racial inequality still lingers in memories of the 1980s, and in the continuing lack of green-space access.
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The building as tool of healing
When we’re ill, it’s not just medical care that helps to treat us. Architects have discovered that the right environment can play an important part too.
Catalogue
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A short account of the Magdalen Hospital.
Magdalen Hospital (London, England)Date: 1795- Books
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Rules, orders, and regulations, of the Magdalen Hospital, for the reception of penitent prostitutes, in St. George's Road, Surry. Instituted at London, anno domini 1758. Incorporated by act of Parliament, 9th George III. 1769. And supported by voluntary benefactions [sic], with a list of the governors.
Magdalen Hospital (London, England)Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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The rules, orders and regulations, of the Magdalen house, for the reception of penitent prostitutes. By order of the governors.
Magdalen Hospital (London, England)Date: M.DCC.LIX. [1759]
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A plan for establishing a charity-house, or charity-houses, for the reception of repenting prostitutes. To be called the Magdalen Charity / [Anon].
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: [1758]- Books
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Advice to the Magdalens.
Dodd, William, 1729-1777.Date: [1760?]