The Women's Hospital, Chelsea: The Princess of Wales laying the foundation stone and, inset, a view of the whole hospital. Wood engraving by W.P., 1880.

The Hospital for Women, Soho Square. Engraving by J. C. Sawyer after himself.

Scenes of nurses at St Saviour's Hospital, Regent's Park, London. Wood engraving, 1886.

A fund-raising fete in aid of the Hospital for Women, held at Grosvenor House, Park Lane. Wood engraving.

Opening of Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital, London. Wood engraving, 1886.

Bridewell Hospital, London: the interior of the pass-room with women and children, some lying on palliasses. Coloured aquatint by J. Hill after A. C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson.

City of London Lying-in Hospital: views of the front elevation. Engraving by B. Cole.

City of London Lying-in Hospital: views of the front elevation and the courtyard elevation. Engraving by B. Cole.

The British Lying-in Hospital, Holborn: the facade and an allegorical scene of charity. Engraving by J.S. Miller after himself.

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London, city of lost hospitals

What Black women do when the NHS fails them

Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction

Getting under the skin

Two medical charities in eighteenth-century London : the Lock Hospital and the Lying-In Charity for Married Women / Donna Andrew.

An account of the British Lying-In Hospital, for Married Women, in Brownlow-Street, Long-Acre, from its institution in November 1749, to December the 31st, 1770.

An account of the rise and progress of the Lying-In-Hospital for Married Women, in Brownlow-Street, Long-Acre, from its first institution in November 1749, to July 25, 1751.

An account of the rise, progress, and state of the British Lying-In Hospital for Married Women, situated in Brownlow-Street, Long-Acre, from its first institution in November 1749, to December the 25th, 1757.

A sermon preach'd at the parish church of St. Andrew, Holborn, on ... May 16, 1759 ... before the President and Governors of the City of London Lying-In Hospital for Married Women ... / [Gregory Sharpe].

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London, city of lost hospitals

What Black women do when the NHS fails them

Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction

Getting under the skin

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Catalogue

Two medical charities in eighteenth-century London : the Lock Hospital and the Lying-In Charity for Married Women / Donna Andrew.

An account of the British Lying-In Hospital, for Married Women, in Brownlow-Street, Long-Acre, from its institution in November 1749, to December the 31st, 1770.

An account of the rise and progress of the Lying-In-Hospital for Married Women, in Brownlow-Street, Long-Acre, from its first institution in November 1749, to July 25, 1751.

An account of the rise, progress, and state of the British Lying-In Hospital for Married Women, situated in Brownlow-Street, Long-Acre, from its first institution in November 1749, to December the 25th, 1757.

A sermon preach'd at the parish church of St. Andrew, Holborn, on ... May 16, 1759 ... before the President and Governors of the City of London Lying-In Hospital for Married Women ... / [Gregory Sharpe].

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Stories

London, city of lost hospitals

What Black women do when the NHS fails them

Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction

Getting under the skin

Images

Catalogue

Two medical charities in eighteenth-century London : the Lock Hospital and the Lying-In Charity for Married Women / Donna Andrew.

An account of the British Lying-In Hospital, for Married Women, in Brownlow-Street, Long-Acre, from its institution in November 1749, to December the 31st, 1770.

An account of the rise and progress of the Lying-In-Hospital for Married Women, in Brownlow-Street, Long-Acre, from its first institution in November 1749, to July 25, 1751.

An account of the rise, progress, and state of the British Lying-In Hospital for Married Women, situated in Brownlow-Street, Long-Acre, from its first institution in November 1749, to December the 25th, 1757.

A sermon preach'd at the parish church of St. Andrew, Holborn, on ... May 16, 1759 ... before the President and Governors of the City of London Lying-In Hospital for Married Women ... / [Gregory Sharpe].