Stories
- Article
Designing better mental health wards
Bringing colour and natural light to tired, grubby mental health wards has a measurably positive effect on patients. A few groundbreaking projects are showing the way.
- 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.
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A reflection on art in a mental hospital
Artist Beth Hopkins explains how she used her experience of researching the Adamson Collection to create an embroidered wall hanging.
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Hospital ward in Liverpool Workhouse; requisitioned for wounded soldiers. Pencil drawing.
Reference: 23965i- Archives and manuscripts
Hospital ward in Liverpool. AWD, with other staff and patients
Date: 1914Reference: PP/AWD/P/1/1/2Part of: Daley, Sir (William) Allen (1887-1969)- Archives and manuscripts
Hospital ward in Liverpool. AWD, with other staff and patients
Date: 1914Reference: PP/AWD/P/1/1/1Part of: Daley, Sir (William) Allen (1887-1969)- Pictures
Hospital ward showing beds on board a Royal Naval hospital ship. Glass negative, ca. 1919.
Date: [1919]Reference: 587151i- Pictures
Hospital ward showing cots on board a Royal Naval Hospital barge, North Russian Expeditionary Force, May 1918 to October 1919. Glass negative, ca. 1919.
Date: [1919]Reference: 586116i