Stories
- Article
Uncovering experiences of dementia
Focusing on three 19th-century women’s case notes, Millie van der Byl Williams explores how our definition of dementia has changed.
- Article
Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
- Book extract
“Above resistant pavements, I floated”
In this extract from ‘Living with Buildings and Walking with Ghosts’, walk with Iain Sinclair through the streets of London.
- Photo story
Beautiful bedding and how to die well
When you are unwell, your bed can be both a refuge and a prison. Discover how artist Poppy Nash created a bed-centred artwork inspired by her own chronic illness and depictions of ill health from history.
Catalogue
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Plague and pestilence in literature and art / by Raymond Crawfurd.
Crawfurd, Raymond Henry Payne, Sir, 1865-1938.Date: 1914
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Plague and pestilence in literature and art / by Raymond Crawfurd.
Crawfurd, Raymond Henry Payne, Sir, 1865-1938.Date: 1914- Archives and manuscripts
M0006944: Plague hospital in Amsterdam
Date: 1 May 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/59/11Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
Medicine : the art of healing / Sherwin B. Nuland.
Nuland, Sherwin B.Date: [1992], ©1992- Books
Hope and healing : painting in Italy in a time of plague, 1500-1800 / edited by Gauvin Alexander Bailey [and others] ; with contributions by Sheila C. Barker [and others].
Date: [2005], ©2005