Stories
- In pictures
The grape cure
When we bring someone in hospital a bunch of grapes, we don't expect the grapes to work a miraculous cure upon them. But throughout history, wondrous healing powers have been attributed to the humble grape.
- In pictures
The history of sanatoriums and surveillance
The sanatorium treatment for tuberculosis was a curious combination of sunshine, fresh air, exercise and constant surveillance.
- Article
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.
- Article
In the tracks of Derek Jarman’s tears
Researcher E K Myerson shares her moving encounters with the personal papers of artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Letters, etc. - new Marie Curie unit at Mount Vernon, May 1968, Dr Dickson's History of Marie Curie
Date: 20th centuryReference: SA/MWF/C.42Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Archives and manuscripts
Jackson - Knutsford
Date: late 19th century - mid 20th centuryReference: PP/ESS/B.39Part of: Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer (1850-1935)- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
John Gilmour - Scales
Date: c.1910Reference: DGH1/7/3/2/3Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
John Gilmour - Boat of Commonsense
Date: c.1910Reference: DGH1/7/3/2/2Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
John Gilmour - The Tale Tersely Told
Date: c.1910Reference: DGH1/7/3/2/4Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital