Stories
- In pictures
Health and the medieval church
Historian Emma J Wells examines at how medieval European churches sought to keep their parishioners healthy.
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Social isolation and the search for sanctuary
Threatened with deportation, Furaha Asani turned to her church for support. Met with silence and disinterest, she walked away, but argues that churches should do much more for migrants.
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Religion and mental health
At a time of extreme distress, Jamila Pereira found that the faith she had relied on was failing her. Here she describes how she found other ways to begin healing and finding happiness.
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The bishop’s profitable sex workers
How did the Church rake in revenue from 14th-century sex regulations? Kate Lister explores a bishop’s lucrative rulebook.
Catalogue
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Churches, and paintings and carvings inside churches, in England. Photographs, ca. 1889-1893.
Haggis, A. W. (Alec William James), 1889-1946.Date: 1934Reference: 38102i- Archives and manuscripts
Churches/Christian Medical Fellowship
Health Education CouncilDate: 1989-1991Reference: SA/HEC/A/43/10/7/1Part of: Health Education Council and Health Education Authority- Archives and manuscripts
Churches/Christian Medical Fellowship
Health Education CouncilDate: 1988-1989Reference: SA/HEC/A/43/10/7/2Part of: Health Education Council and Health Education Authority- Archives and manuscripts
Churches, other than Baptist, including Roman Catholic
Date: 1986Reference: WTI/SGB/A.19/1/5Part of: Browne, Stanley George, CMG, OBE, MD, FRCS, FRCP, DTM (1907-1986)- Books
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Churches no charnel-houses: being, an enquiry into the profaneness, indecency, and pernicious consequences to the living, of burying the dead in churches and churchyards. ... By a clergyman.
Lewis, Thomas, 1689-1749?.Date: 1726