Stories
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The stranger who started an epidemic
New Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever.
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Medics, migration and the NHS
In the 1960s the NHS became Britain’s biggest employer. So to help fill all those jobs, the government brought in thousands of workers from abroad.
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The solidarity of sickness
Visiting an injured friend in hospital prompts writer Sinéad Gleeson to reflect on the instant rapport forged between compatriots in the kingdom of the sick.
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Coasting to catastrophe
In climate change, everything – and everyone – is connected. The watery process that will gradually cut off the Isle of Thanet from the British mainland has begun, and everyone in the UK needs to pay attention.
Catalogue
- Books
Hospital ships / by E.B. Pickthorn.
Pickthorn, E. B.Date: 1908]- Books
Hospital ships and ambulance trains / by John H. Plumridge.
Plumridge, John H. (John Henry), 1894-Date: 1975- Archives and manuscripts
Hospital ships (5)
Date: c.1914-1920Reference: GC/85/D/2Part of: Knapp, Surgeon-Captain Montague Henry- Archives and manuscripts
Printed statements of casualties in Hospital Ships, transports and store ships as a result of enemy action
Date: 1915-1918Reference: RAMC/523/5/7Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Digital Images
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South Wharf, Rotherhite where patients were received for embarkation to the Hospital Ships, 1901-02.