Stories
- Article
London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
- Article
The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
Catalogue
- Pictures
- Online
National Hospital for Incurables and St. Mary's Church, Cowley St. John, Oxford. Transfer lithograph by J. Akerman, 1873, after C. Buckeridge.
Date: 13 June 1873Reference: 20877i- Pictures
- Online
National Hospital for Incurables and St. Mary's Church, Cowley St. John, Oxford: with a floor plan. Photolithographny J. Akerman, 1873, after C. Buckeridge.
Date: June 13 1873Reference: 20876i- Archives and manuscripts
SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL {WOODSIDE HOSPITAL}
Date: 1750 - 2001Reference: H64- Ephemera
Hospitals ephemera. Box 7.
- Books
The incurables movement : an illustrated history of the British home / Gordon C. Cook ; foreword by Princess Alexandra.
Cook, G. C. (Gordon Charles)Date: [2006], ©2006