Stories
- Article
To write in golden photographs
When Rachel Genn’s brother disappeared, a newspaper article led the family to his bedside. But the accident he’d barely survived was not to be the last tragedy in his life.
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Children in burns prevention campaigns
Whose responsibility is it to prevent accidental burns and scalds in the home? Shane Ewen’s research shows that it’s everyone’s concern.
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The psychological impact of nuclear war
How would you hold up psychologically if a nuclear bomb was dropped? Discover the British government’s secret predictions from the 1980s.
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Healing hard-working hands
The names we use to describe different hand injuries tell us about history, gender and class. Occupational therapist María Cristina Jiménez explores those injuries, and the changing ways we talk about them.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
"Home accidents: a survey in a metropolitan borough", Medical Officer, 24 Apr 1959
Date: 1959Reference: GC/200/D/1/48Part of: Chalke, Dr Herbert Davies (1897-1979)- Books
Home and leisure accident research : including special report accidents and elderly people : twelfth annual report : home accident surveillance system : 1988 data / Consumer Safety Unit.
Date: [1990]- Books
- Online
Home medicine and surgery : a dictionary of diseases and accidents, and their treatment when the services of a doctor are not obtainable / by W.J. Mackenzie.
Mackenzie, W. J. (William James)Date: 1890- Books
How to avoid accidents and give first aid / by Helen MacMurchy, M.D., (Tor) Chief of the Division of Child Welfare.
MacMurchy, Helen, 1862-1953Date: [1923]- Archives and manuscripts
Wellcome Medical Diaries, Home Editions
Date: 1891-1984Reference: WF/M/PB/003Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd