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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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Pepys and the plague

Through its long history, London has survived some enormous epidemics. During the 1665 Great Plague of London, the city burned, shops closed, the streets emptied and bodies piled up. Read Samuel Pepys’s account of how the city pulled through.

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Getting under the skin

Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.

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  • Lyons Waddell : 5th Floor, Villiers House, 41-47 The Strand, London... : Amanda Hatswell, senior account executive.
  • Lyons Waddell : 5th Floor, Villiers House, 41-47 The Strand, London WC2N 5QB... : [Letterhead].
  • The Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, London, England: exterior. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • [Leaflet advertising appearances by "A twin boy with one body, two heads, four arms and four legs" at 139 The Strand, London].
  • [Undated Victorian handbill advertising Mrs. E. Farmer, of Wantage, Berkshire, "the largest woman in existence" weighing 24 stone, on exhibition at 194 The Strand, London].
  • The Grove Health Centre, Hammersmith, London, England: exterior; a couple in the foreground. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • The shopfront of the truss-maker Timothy Sheldrake, at No. 50 The Strand, London; royal coat of arms above the bay window. Engraving by T. Medland, ca. 1820.
  • Undated handbill advertising 'The living wonder', M. Aish with a breast in place of her right leg, showing at London Dairy, 96 The Strand, another (1854) of a 'Limbless child' on show at the Lowther Arcade (London?) and a newspaper cutting of 'An armless bride' (August 1874).
  • Undated handbill advertising 'The living wonder', M. Aish with a breast in place of her right leg, showing at London Dairy, 96 The Strand, another (1854) of a 'Limbless child' on show at the Lowther Arcade (London?) and a newspaper cutting of 'An armless bride' (August 1874).
  • The London Restaurant Company (Limited) : Branch No.2, 11 Catherine Street, Strand : under new and special arrangement : the shilling dinner (including attendance) consisting of soup, joint, pastry, vegetables, bread and cheese.
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