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
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
'Pioneer Health Centre, Peckham'
Date: 1937-1938Reference: PP/GMG/B/58Part of: M'Gonigle, George Cuthbert Mura- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Pioneer Health Centre, Peckham
Date: 1938-1951Reference: SA/EUG/D.159Part of: Eugenics Society- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Pioneer Health Centre, Peckham
Date: 1927-1937Reference: SA/EUG/D.158Part of: Eugenics Society- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Pioneer Health Centre, Peckham: printed material
Date: c.1933Reference: PP/ADD/F/3/1Part of: Robina Addis (1900-1986): archives- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Peckham: The Bulletin of the Pioneer Health Centre
Date: 1949-1950Reference: SA/PHC/B.5/22Part of: Pioneer Health Centre Peckham, with papers of George Scott Williamson MD (1884-1953) and Innes Hope Pearse (1889-1978)