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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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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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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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The making of ‘Quacks’

How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?

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  • Seamen's Hospital Society [letter head] : ("Dreadnought"), Greenwich, S.E. 10.
  • The Physiological Society : University College Hospital meeting : 27 November 1943 / G.L. Brown, W.H. Newton.
  • The Physiological Society : University College Hospital meeting : 27 November 1943 / G.L. Brown, W.H. Newton.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with many people walking beside the river, and much shipping on it. Engraving by J. Collins.
  • Royal Hospital, Greenwich, seen from the west, with fishermen, nets drying, and large blocks of stone. Engraving by J. Henshall after J. Holland.
  • Royal Hospital, Greenwich, with the statue of George II in the courtyard. Engraving by J. Caldwall after W. Fabian.
  • Royal Hospital, Greenwich, with the statue of George II in the courtyard. Engraving by B. Cole.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich. Etching by B. Cole.
  • Dreadnought Hospital : out patients' surgery / E.G. Berryman & Sons Ltd.
  • Greenwich, with London in the distance. Engraving by E. Finden after W. Westall.
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