Stories
- In pictures
How chloroform shaped the murder mystery
Find out how a sweet-smelling liquid anaesthetic captured the public’s imagination and changed pop culture for ever.
- In pictures
Dark Matter responds to ‘Epidemic threats and racist legacies’
Animated-collage artist Dark Matter brings his unique combination of live footage and archive imagery to respond to a text suggesting that the field of epidemiology emerged in the 19th century imbued with the doctrine of Western imperialism.
- 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
Coleridge’s hypochondria
An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
'Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses': Vol. 1
Date: 1909Reference: SA/QNI/P.6/5Part of: Queen's Nursing Institute- Archives and manuscripts
'Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses': Vol. 2
Date: 1913Reference: SA/QNI/P.6/6Part of: Queen's Nursing Institute- Archives and manuscripts
Queen Victoria
Date: 1892-1901Reference: SA/QNI/F.2/1Part of: Queen's Nursing Institute- Archives and manuscripts
'Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses'
Date: 1909 and 1913Reference: SA/QNI/P.6/5-6Part of: Queen's Nursing Institute- Pictures
Queen Victoria. Photograph.
Reference: 45845i