Stories
- Article
The hidden history of homesickness
Gail Tolley delves into the history of homesickness and discovers that its rich past holds a clue to how we view the experience today.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
- Article
Mary Bishop and the surveillant gaze
Writer and artist Rose Ruane explores the paintings of Mary Bishop, created during a 30-year stay in a psychiatric hospital, which speak of constant medical surveillance and censorious self-examination.
- Article
Demanding a diagnosis for invisible pain
After dozens of hospital visits and handfuls of painkillers, a plethora of scans and tests bring diagnosis closer for Jaipreet Virdi.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Colonel Plumridge's own photographs of the "Netley coaches" and No. 39 Ambulance Train on which he served in the First World War, including photographs of "The Queries" concert party
Date: 1975Reference: RAMC/1752/2/4Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Medical Women's Federation
Medical Womens' FederationDate: 1879-1988Reference: SA/MWF
- Books
- Online
Public health: a popular introduction to sanitary science : being a history of the prevalent and fatal diseases of the English population from the earliest times to the close of the war of the French revolution in 1815 / by William A. Guy.
Guy, William A. (William Augustus), 1810-1885.Date: 1874- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 22
Date: September 1904 - March 1906Reference: WF/E/03/22Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library
Date: 1874-c.1984Reference: WA/HMM