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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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Getting under the skin

Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.

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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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Coasting to catastrophe

In climate change, everything – and everyone – is connected. The watery process that will gradually cut off the Isle of Thanet from the British mainland has begun, and everyone in the UK needs to pay attention.

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  • The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam], St. George's Fields, Lambeth: elevation and plan, with a scale and a key. Engraving by J. Le Keux, 1823, after P. Hardwick.
  • The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam], St. George's Fields, Lambeth: elevation and plan, with a scale and a key. Engraving by J. Le Keux, 1823, after P. Hardwick.
  • The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam], St. George's Fields, Lambeth. Engraving by Eastgate.
  • St. Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London. Engraving.
  • St. Luke's Hospital, Moorfields, London. Engraving.
  • The story of Bethlehem Hospital from its foundation in 1247 / by Edward Geoffrey O'Donoghue.
  • The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields: the entrance facade. Engraving by A. Soly.
  • St. Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London. Engraving.
  • St. Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London. Engraving.
  • The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam], St. George's Fields, Lambeth. Wood engraving, 1848.
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