Stories
- Article
How the Peckham Experiment inspired my fiction
Find out how an unruly mass of archive material from a 1930s radical health centre has inspired brand new writing.
- Article
Two health centres, two ideologies
Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.
- 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.
- Article
Desperate housewives and suburban neurosis
Discover how a pioneering health centre replaced housewives’ supposedly empty home lives with a social space that encouraged healthy child rearing.
Catalogue
- Videos
Dr. Robert Bolton home movies. Compilation 2, Peckham Pioneer Health Centre.
Date: 1935-37- Archives and manuscripts
The Pioneer Health Centre Peckham, London, affiliated to the National Trust for the Promotion and Study of Health
Date: (?c.1947)Reference: SA/PHC/B.5/23/6Part of: Pioneer Health Centre Peckham, with papers of George Scott Williamson MD (1884-1953) and Innes Hope Pearse (1889-1978)- Books
Incentives to parenthood : some data from the Pioneer Health Centre, Peckham / by Mary Gowing.
Gowing, Mary.Date: 1943- Film
Dr. Robert Bolton home movies. Compilation 2, Peckham Pioneer Health Centre.
Date: 1936- Videos
- Online
Dr. Robert Bolton home movies. Compilation 1, Peckham Pioneer Health Centre.
Date: 1931-5