handwritten list of names, index from 14th century book, on brown paper

Today @artandinequality.bsky.social is diving into thousands of names of 14th c. men and women - a pure joy and a gold mine for #socialhistory #culturalhistory #materialculture #hospitalhistory #demography #Florentinehistory and so much more!
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Today’s Find: Opened 21 June 1959, George E. Weems Memorial Hospital serves the small Florida seaport of Apalachicola & surrounding area. Weems [1881-1956] was a town physician for several decades www.weemsmemorial.com Town’s first hospital opened in 1948 #histmed #medicalhistory #hospitalhistory

Today’s Find: Alabama Yesterdays blog post “Alabama Photos of the Day: Moody Hospital in Dothan” tinyurl.com/y6gxprvs #histmed #medhistory #hospitalhistory #alabama #dothanal #dothanalabama

Today’s Find: Postcard featuring an 1890 photo of Pennsylvania Hospital’s East Wing 8th & Pine streets. Built in Philadelphia in 1756 tinyurl.com/4pnbwz2p #histmed #medicalhistory #hospitalhistory #postcard

Black and white image showing the hospital water tower on the left and the main entrance block on the right

Black and white image showing trees on the left, water tower and main hospital entrance towards the right. The bowling green is can also be seen in the front of the image

Front cover of book published in 1983 for the 75th anniversary of opening the hospital

Two photos of the main entrance and water tower featured in Hilary M. Thomas’s book published to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Whitchurch Hospital in 1983.

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3. OUTSIDE THE ASYLUM - GUEST BLOG BY MADDIE HALE — Worcester Medical Museums We’ve been busy at work on the Outside the Asylum project. Having focused first on researching the patients at the asylum, I have now been spending time looking at the collection. I’ve been choosing v...

New blog by Maddie Hale, Researcher on our 'Outside the Asylum' project @artscouncilengland.bsky.social #MentalHealth #HospitalHistory

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Whitchurch Hospital building showing what was the front entrance hidden by trees.

The water tower on the left and main entrance building behind the trees on the right

What a beautiful sunny ☀️ day in Cardiff today
For all our followers here is a photo of the now closed Whitchurch Hospital taken earlier this afternoon

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Lost Hospitals of Northumberland Over the past few months the Northumberland page has been thoroughly revised and expanded. The page covers hospitals within the current county of Northumberland, there is a separate pages for Tyne …

New post on historic hospitals: wp.me/p62Hk2-39n
It is mostly to alert folks to progress in revising the site, with much work recently to flesh out the Northumberland page.
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former Ovenstone hospital buildings, two-storey, three-bay central block linked to single-storey ward wing.

black-and-white photograph of the hospital - symmetrical group of buildings, mostly single storey. 2-storey central admin block, single storey ward wings either side, small single storey block in front.

There used to be hundreds of small infectious diseases hospitals in the UK. This one survives as an arts centre near Pittenweem in Fife. Photos old and new, old one from Canmore #HistoricEnvironmentScotland Blog post wp.me/p62Hk2-30e
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