Stories
- Article
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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The making of ‘Quacks’
How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?
- In pictures
Pepys and the plague
Through its long history, London has survived some enormous epidemics. During the 1665 Great Plague of London, the city burned, shops closed, the streets emptied and bodies piled up. Read Samuel Pepys’s account of how the city pulled through.
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Building a dream in the garden suburbs
In the late 19th century a ‘garden suburb’ promised a retreat from London’s dirt and crowds. See how this new concept was developed to appeal to the health concerns of the literary classes.
Catalogue
- Books
The threepenny doctor : Doctor Jelley of Hackney / Inner City Theatre Company.
Inner City Theatre Company.Date: [1983]- Ephemera
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A general list of the members of the Royal College of Surgeons in England : members who reside and practise, or who have resided and practised, in or within seven miles of the City of London ... members who do not reside or practise, in or within seven miles of the City of London.
Royal College of Surgeons of England.Date: 1808- Pictures
City plan of the vicinity of St Paul's church, London. Etching, 1773.
Date: 1773Reference: 25205i- Pictures
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Whittington College (almshouses), City of London: perspective view. Etching, c. 1835.
Date: 1835Reference: 24471i- Pictures
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Whittington College (almshouses), City of London: perspective view. Etching by W. Wallis, c. 1831.
Date: 1831Reference: 24472i