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Papers relating to the publication of the book, Victorian Incurables

Electronic and typescript correspondence, notes, photographic prints and negatives, mounted 35 mm slides and captions. File chiefly relates to the publication of the book, Victorian Incurables: a history of the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability by professor Gordon Cook. The correspondence relate to finding a publishing house for the book and editorial changes to the book.

Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability

Draft chapter for a publication on the life of Andrew Reed

Draft book chapter on Andrew Reed written by Dr Ian J Shaw, relating to his founding of the hospital. The publication was part of a biography of Andrew Reed and in additional to the article, there is a letter from the author to the hospital regarding the publication and his thoughts on the recently published, Victorian Incurables book.

Ian J Shaw

Letters received by Fundraising Department

Letters received by the Fundraising Department from the public which refer to a historic connection or past memory of the institution, these include a former nurse wartime experience training at the hospital during the Blitz.

Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability

Oral history interviews

Oral history interviews on the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the hospital. The interviews were conducted as part of the National Lottery Heritage Project, Preserving and sharing the historic archives of the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability that ran at the hospital from December 2019 to November 2021. The interviews were conducted remotely due to Covid-19 social distancing regulations at the hospital and were conducted by Chris Olver, RHN Archivist, and staff members at the hospital.

Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability

Photograph of tree removal from the former grounds of the Hospital

Black and white photographs with captions of tree removal from the grounds of the hospital. The photographs document the different stages of the tree removal from the site and seem to be part of the Wandsworth Council scheme for a new housing development on land near Beaumont Road, which was purchased by the council in 1962. Photographs show chopping down of the trees and images of the landscape.

Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability

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