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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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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.

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Rediscovering Margaret Louden, a forgotten NHS hero

Bored during lockdown, David Jesudason started bin diving at night. Then a chance discovery set him on a new path: to tell the story of a forgotten female surgeon.

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  • St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: interior of the Great Hall. Photograph, c. 1908.
  • St Christopher's Church, the Bank of England, and St Bartholomew the Great, London: the western entrance, with a woman walking through. Engraving by J. Jackson after J. W. Archer.
  • St Bartholomew the Great, London: a conjectural ground plan of the priory around the church. Wood engraving.
  • St Bartholomew the Great, London: the western entrance, in a ruined state. Wood engraving by J. Brown.
  • Rahere: his tomb effigy in the Church of St. Bartholomew the Great, London. Drawing by Christopher R. Webb.
  • St Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield, London: seven views. Wood engravings by T. Gilks after W.A.Delamotte, 1847.
  • The tomb of Rahere, St Bartholomew the Great Church, London. Wood engraving by J. Jackson after J.W. Archer.
  • St Bartholomew the Great, London: the western entrance, with a woman walking through. Wood engraving by J. Jackson after J. W. Archer.
  • St Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield, London: four views. Wood engravings by T. Gilks and J. S. Heaviside after W.A. Delamotte, 1847.
  • The church of St. Bartholomew the Great; interior view facing East. Photograph, 1902.
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