Stories
- Article
Two health centres, two ideologies
Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.
- Article
Lustmord and the three perspectives of murder
Artist Jenny Holzer's work shines a light on the three perspectives of sexual murder: the victim, the perpetrator and the observer.
- Article
The hidden history of homesickness
Gail Tolley delves into the history of homesickness and discovers that its rich past holds a clue to how we view the experience today.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
LEPRA (formerly The British Leprosy Relief Association, now LEPRA Health in Action)
LEPRA (The British Leprosy Relief Association)Date: 1924-1992Reference: WTI/LEP- Books
- Online
Public health: a popular introduction to sanitary science : being a history of the prevalent and fatal diseases of the English population from the earliest times to the close of the war of the French revolution in 1815 / by William A. Guy.
Guy, William A. (William Augustus), 1810-1885.Date: 1874- Archives and manuscripts
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (1859-1930)
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930.Date: Late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: MS.8744- Archives and manuscripts
Longmore Pamphlet Collection: Volume 6
Date: 1808-1884Reference: RAMC/423/6Part of: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection- Archives and manuscripts
H-R
Date: 1943-1945Reference: GC/135/B.2/3Part of: Napsbury Mental Hospital, St Albans