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Originally posted on Building Our Past:
An open-air ward at the First Eastern Hospital in Cambridge. The men in the foreground are wearing ‘hospital blues’. One of my current preoccupations, which will contribute to a Historic England project about the home…

Some of the most distinctive hospital buildings.

The Royal Ear Hospital. The new hospital on Huntley Street, for which Duveen donated the princely sum of £50,000, is due for demolition.

Originally posted on h-madness:
The Royal College of Nursing launches a new exhibition Out of the Asylum: The History of Mental Health Nursing, on display from 5 October to 4 March 2016 at the Library and Heritage Centre, London. An…

Originally posted on Running Past:
Solarium Court, formerly part of the pioneering Bermondsey Health Centre, has been nominated for a Southwark blue plaque to recognise its contribution to local history particularly in relation to tuberculosis.  The ground-breaking work done there…

Originally posted on h-madness:
Bellevue Hospital, New York City, 1885-98. © Wellcome Library, London 15-16 April 2016 Birkbeck, University of London In 1921, Dr Montagu Lomax published a searing indictment of Prestwich Asylum exposing an entrenched sub-culture of malpractice, negligence…

Originally posted on The Library Time Machine:
It was about this time last year that I had to visit Accident and Emergency at the Chelsea Westminster Hospital in Fulham Road which resulted in a blog post about the history of…

Originally posted on Langdon Down Museum of Learning Disability:
The genesis Prompted by a parishioner, Mrs Plumbe, who had read an article by Samuel Gaskell (see below) and had a son who was admitted to the asylum in 1848, Rev.…