Stories
- Book extract
Sockets and stumps
Historian Emily Mayhew has met soldiers who have survived the seemingly unsurvivable. Here, she explores the part prosthetics play in the process of military rehabilitation.
- Article
Cowpox, Covid-19 and Jenner’s vaccination legacy
The well-known story of vaccination pioneer Edward Jenner has at its heart his drive to make vaccines free of charge and available to all. Now his principles extend to the global campaign for a people’s patent-free vaccine for Covid-19.
Catalogue
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Caring on the home front : the work of the Joint War Organisation of the British Red Cross Society & the Order of St. John in World War Two.
Date: [2005]- Archives and manuscripts
The organisation of the Tuberculosis Service in time of war
Date: 1939Reference: SA/BRT/C/2/10Part of: British Thoracic Society and predecessors- Journals
The Prisoner of War : the official journal of the Prisoners of War Department of the Red Cross and St. John War Organisation, St. James's Palace, London, S.W.1.
Date: 1942-1945- Books
Humanity keeps an appointment : the story of the War Organisation of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem.
Joint War OrganisationDate: [1944?]- Ephemera
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Join the Penny-a-Week Fund and keep the Red Cross in action : this appeal is made on behalf of the War Organisation of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St.John of Jerusalem, registered under the War Charoities Act, 1940.
Joint War OrganisationDate: [between 1940 and 1945]