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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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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction

Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.

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Coasting to catastrophe

In climate change, everything – and everyone – is connected. The watery process that will gradually cut off the Isle of Thanet from the British mainland has begun, and everyone in the UK needs to pay attention.

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  • Alexander Fleming House (Department of Health and Social Security), London, England: exterior. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • The Queen's House and Naval Hospital from Greenwich Hill with people in the foreground, London in the far distance. Ink sketch.
  • Boer War: Queen Alexandra at Devonshire House, London, presenting war medals to the nurses of the Imperial Yeomanry hospital, South Africa. Pen and ink drawing by O. Paque, 1902.
  • [Undated handbill (about 1874?) for Crecraft's Exhibition at the Agricultural Hall (London, England) featuring "Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Dodd, the smallest people living, the king and queen of the Lilliputians"].
  • The Queens' House, Greenwich, from the south, with the Royal Naval Hospital and London in the distance. Engraving.
  • Déjeuner to Viscount Selby on his admission to the freedom of the city : October 10th, 1905 : the Right Hon. Sir John Pound, Bart., (Lord Mayor) : plan of table / Mansion House.
  • Déjeuner to Viscount Selby on his admission to the freedom of the city : October 10th, 1905 : the Right Hon. Sir John Pound, Bart., (Lord Mayor) : plan of table / Mansion House.
  • Déjeuner to Viscount Selby on his admission to the freedom of the city : October 10th, 1905 : the Right Hon. Sir John Pound, Bart., (Lord Mayor) : plan of table / Mansion House.
  • To meet the archbishops and bishops : the Lord Mayor & the Lady Mayoress request the honour of the company of... July 8th... / The Mansion House, London.
  • The Aztec Lilliputians and the Earthmen, or Erdmanniges : grand fashionable exhibitions commencing Tuesday, Dec. 26th, to continue for a short time only ... / Queen's Concert Rooms, Hanover Square.
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