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.
- Article
The building as tool of healing
When we’re ill, it’s not just medical care that helps to treat us. Architects have discovered that the right environment can play an important part too.
- In pictures
A history of art in hospitals
Art historian Anne Wallentine examines art in hospital settings – from its Christian devotional origins to its healing role in modern healthcare buildings.
- Article
How hospital care fails disabled bodies
Hospitals aim to make sick people well. But if the sick person is also disabled, the unbending nature of monolithic hospital systems can easily worsen the situation. Here Jamie Hale writes from painful personal experience.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Hospital buildings, staff and patients, local people and events, topographical scenes etc.
Date: 1930s, 1954-1957, 1950s and n.dReference: WTI/SGB/K.3/1Part of: Browne, Stanley George, CMG, OBE, MD, FRCS, FRCP, DTM (1907-1986)- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Hospital Buildings and Grounds - Photographs
Date: c.1880-2005Reference: DGH1/8/2Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
Photographs of St Mary's Hospital surrounding buildings and landscape
Date: 1990sReference: ART/IOW/D/1/4Part of: Healing Arts, Isle of Wight- Digital Images
- Online
Proposed buildings for St. Thomas's Hospital, London, 1865
- Archives and manuscripts
Photograph (1) and negative of Hospital buildings (1)
Date: c.1961-1962Reference: GC/143/3/5Part of: Jolly, Hugh Reginald