Stories
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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.
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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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Tragic artists and their all-consuming passions
Does having a debilitating disease help or hinder creative genius?
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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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Sketches of the Retreat buildings and grounds by H.G. Hampton
Date: 1925Reference: RET/2/1/22/5Part of: The Retreat Archive- Archives and manuscripts
SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL {WOODSIDE HOSPITAL}
Date: 1750 - 2001Reference: H64- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 5
Date: Jan 1899 - Aug 1901Reference: WF/E/01/01/05Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
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Small printed floor plans of the Retreat, including keys to functions of rooms
Date: Late 19th CenturyReference: RET/2/1/22/1Part of: The Retreat Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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Gardens on the west side of the Retreat, near West Villa and the Nurses’ Home including views of terraces and herbaceous borders
Date: Late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: RET 1/8/2/8/14Part of: The Retreat Archive