Stories
- Article
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.
- Interview
Inside the mind of Living with Buildings curator, Emily Sargent
Curator Emily Sargent reveals why council estates and a Finnish TB sanatorium were chosen for the ‘Living with Buildings’ exhibition.
- Article
Doctors and the English seaside
Fashionable seaside towns in England owe much of their popularity to 18th-century doctors, who advised them to take the 'sea cure'.
- Article
Tragic artists and their all-consuming passions
Does having a debilitating disease help or hinder creative genius?
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Stone, Thomas Madden (fl. 1838-1882), Librarian of Royal College of Surgeons of England and autograph collector
Stone, Thomas Madden, fl. 1838-1882Date: 18th century - 19th centuryReference: MS.7074- Archives and manuscripts
Bankart, James (1834-1902), surgeon and ophthalmologist
Bankart, James (1834-1902), MB Lond, FRCSDate: Mid 19th century - late 19th centuryReference: PP/JBA- Archives and manuscripts
Groups of letters to other recipients
Date: 18th century - 19th centuryReference: MS.7074/6Part of: Stone, Thomas Madden (fl. 1838-1882), Librarian of Royal College of Surgeons of England and autograph collector- Archives and manuscripts
Hill, Norman Walter (1852-c.1920), collector
Date: late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: MS.7044- Archives and manuscripts
Livestock Poultry
Date: Late 19th centuryReference: WF/C/M/SL/03/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd