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A photograph of Florence Nightingale, holding a letter in her lap.

Document of The Week: Nightingale and Sanitation in India Document of the Week

Our latest “Document of the Week” was chosen by our Editor, Nishah Malik. It is drawn from correspondence between the sanitary reformer, John Sunderland, and the famous nurse, Florence Nightingale, exchanged between 1865 and 1867 Read more →

Nishah Malik

Published 2nd February, 2026

A piece of aged paper with the title Sanitary Rhymes. There is a subheading printed more centrally, Personal Precautions Against Cholera, And All Kinds of Fever.

Document of the Week: Sanitary Rhymes by Alfred Power (1871) Document of the Week

Our latest “Document of the Week” was chosen by our Senior Editor, Dr Tommy Dolan. It is Alfred Power’s Sanitary Rhymes, published in 1871. Indicative of the sanitary movement that emerged in Britain Read more →

Dr Tommy Dolan

Published 14th April, 2025

The front cover of a pamphlet titled: A Damnable Treason By a Contagious Plaster of a Plague-Sore. It states Treason in large letters, followed by Plague Sore. There is an illustration of a man with hair down to his ears and a moustache, framed by a border, below the text.

Document of the Week: "A Damnable Treason By a Contagious Plaster of a Plague-Sore" (1641) Document of the Week

Our latest “Document of The Week” was chosen by our Curator, Hanna Polasky, and written by our Editor, Nishah Malik. It is a pamphlet which outlines a grotesque assassination attempt against a member of the English parliament on 25 October 1641. Titled A Damnable Treason Read more →

Nishah Malik

Published 24th February, 2025

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The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north, with sheep grazing and people walking in the foreground. Coloured wood engraving by W. H. Prior.

Licensed to access Records from Bethlem Royal Hospital, 1559–1932

1559 1932

Edward Jenner inoculates patients. Cows are seen growing out of the arms of patients as the inoculation for smallpox came from giving the patient cowpox.

Licensed to access Essays and Dissertations of the Scottish Royal Medical Society, 1751–1801

1751 1970

An image taken from within a trench. A soldier stands and looks directly at the camera, with other soldiers behind him.

Licensed to access Life on the Front Line: Diaries, News, and Letters from the First World War, 1914–1919

1914 1919

A black and white image of a gavel resting on a table with a globe in the background.

Licensed to access Colonial Law in Africa, 1808–1919

1808 1919