Stories
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The enduring myth of the mad genius
There’s a fine line to tread between creativity and psychosis.
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Getting the measure of pain
In the 20th century doctors tried to find a way to measure pain. But even when ‘objective’ measures were rejected, an accurate understanding of another’s pain remained frustratingly elusive.
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Birth, babies and boxes of memories
With memories of her baby in neonatal intensive care still fresh, Erin Beeston decides to unearth the poignant objects her family kept following births, going back as far as Victorian times.
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Tragic artists and their all-consuming passions
Does having a debilitating disease help or hinder creative genius?
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Extract from 'Once Upon A Ward: VADs' own stories and pictures of Service at Home and Overseas 1939-1946', compiled by Doreen Boys, containing further information about Shaftesbury Military Hospital.
Date: mid-late 20th CenturyReference: GC/250/3Part of: Crooks, Henry Edward (b.1918)- Pictures
Viola Hamilton.
Date: [early 20th century]Reference: 3305635iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- Books
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The St. Nicholas anthology / edited by Henry Steele Commager ; with an introduction by May Lamberton Becker.
Date: 1983, ©1975- Books
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Handbook for inspectors of nuisances / by Edward Smith.
Smith, Edward, 1818?-1874.Date: 1873- Pictures
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Concerned parents trying to coax a sick child to take some liquid while a dog waits patiently. Watercolour by W.H. Margetson, 1901.
Margetson, William Henry, active 1901.Date: 19 April 1901Reference: 16897i