Stories
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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
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Building a dream in the garden suburbs
In the late 19th century a ‘garden suburb’ promised a retreat from London’s dirt and crowds. See how this new concept was developed to appeal to the health concerns of the literary classes.
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Pepys and the plague
Through its long history, London has survived some enormous epidemics. During the 1665 Great Plague of London, the city burned, shops closed, the streets emptied and bodies piled up. Read Samuel Pepys’s account of how the city pulled through.
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Parks and politics in Brixton’s past and present
Gentrification is creeping along Railton Road, but racial inequality still lingers in memories of the 1980s, and in the continuing lack of green-space access.
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The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. Engraving by T.L. Busby, 1814, after Whichelo.
Whichelo, T., active 1804-1819.Reference: 38365i- Pictures
The Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. Coloured lithograph, 196-, by T.G. Cullen.
Cullen, T. Gordon, 1914-1994.Reference: 38407i- Books
Cancer at the crossroads and the challenge for the future : the Marie Curie Memorial Foundation, London, fourth annual symposium incorporating the Walker prize lecture of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, 9th May 1972 / edited by Ronald W. Raven.
Date: [1973]- Books
Symposium on the Domiciliary Care of the Patient with Cancer, held in the Edward Lumley Hall, at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.2, on Wednesday, 28th May, 1969 / edited by Ronald W. Raven.
Symposium on the Domiciliary Care of the Patient with Cancer (1969 : Royal College of Surgeons of England)Date: 1970
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Letter to the Rt. Hon. Sir George Grey ... / from Charles Purton Cooper ; with papers respecting the sanitary state of part of the parish of St. Giles in the Fields, London.
Cooper, Charles Purton, 1793-1873.Date: 1850