Stories
- Article
The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
- Article
Dying at home and the doctor’s role
Our anonymous GP talks about the bittersweet rewards of supporting a patient when he chose to die at home.
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Why we no longer keep our dead at home
Today in the UK we rarely sit with, touch, or perhaps even see our loved ones after they’ve died. Past practices were very different and, Claire Cock-Starkey argues, were more helpful for those grieving.
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The empty bungalow
Grandma’s unsteady piles of stuff have been dismantled and dispersed. From an empty bungalow, Georgie Evans makes a plea for hoarding behaviour to be better understood.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Home Nursing Scheme (Greater London Provident Scheme for District Nursing)
Date: c.1936Reference: SA/QNI/H.13/7Part of: Queen's Nursing Institute- Archives and manuscripts
(Trustees') guarantees of the accounts of the Home Nursing Scheme with Messrs Glyn, Mills & Co.
Date: 1938 and 1942Reference: SA/QNI/H.13/7/4Part of: Queen's Nursing Institute- Archives and manuscripts
Tipton and District Nursing and Training Home for Staffordshire
Date: 1935-1939Reference: SA/QNI/X.64Part of: Queen's Nursing Institute- Archives and manuscripts
Leamington Nursing Home
Date: 1975-1977Reference: SA/BPA/E/5Part of: BPAS, British Pregnancy Advisory Service- Ephemera
The London Clinic & Nursing Home Limited ... : capital £175,000 divided into 175,000 shares of £1 each ... : this is to certify that ... is the registered proprietor of ... shares of one pound each, numbered as per margin, in The London Clinic & Nursing Home Limited.
London Clinic and Nursing Home.Date: 1929