Stories
- Photo story
From chef’s whites to medical scrubs
Meet the machinists who have rapidly switched from making clothing for hospitality staff to uniforms for hospital workers.
- Article
The search for a cure for endometriosis
Discover how a white American doctor’s experimental operations on black female slaves laid the foundations for modern gynaecological surgery.
- Article
Thousands of years of women’s pain
Even in the 21st century, women with severe monthly pain find their suffering minimised or dismissed by the medical profession. Such pain is seen as simply a natural part of being female.
- Article
The house of Joan
The longueurs of hospital stays and enforced inactivity were the spur to Joan’s precise tailoring skills and flamboyant creations, all to the benefit of her fashion-loving sisters.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
White, Anne (& others)
White, Anne.Date: 1789-1845Reference: MSS.4992-4993
- Pictures
- Online
Anne Manning, a quack doctor, outside her cottage with Betty Upton. Etching, by W.J. White, 1818, after himself.
White, William Johnstone.Date: 31 March 1818Reference: 2353i- Books
Drawers of water : domestic water use in East Africa / Gilbert F. White, David J. Bradley, Anne U. White ; illustrated by Tag Ahmed.
White, Gilbert F.Date: [1972]- Books
Rural water supply and sanitation in less-developed countries : a selected annotated bibliography / Anne U. White and Chris Seviour.
White, Anne U.Date: [1974], ©1974- Books
Touch : attachment and the body : the John Bowlby Memorial Conference monograph, 2003 / edited by Kate White ; contributors, Susie Orbach, Anne Aiyegbusi, Brett Kahr, Bernice Laschinger, Margot Sunderland, Colwyn Trevarthen and Kate White.
John Bowlby Memorial Conference 2003 : London, England)Date: 2004