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Booklet, Nursing the Long-stay patient' by Mrs M C Bodington. An address delivered to Association of Independent Hospitals. Booklet No 4/81.

Booklet of international seminar on the long term care of disabled people held at Drapers' Hall, London, 13 January 1981. Booklet No. 5/81

Reports and publications relating to research undertaken by the hospital's research department along with conference and seminar papers produced by the Department including research relating to the SMART assessment for patients with disorders of consciousness.

Booklet, Caring for the disabled- adversity and caring' by Maureen Tudor, based on an address delivered at Ware College, Hertfordshire. Published by J Walter Thompson Company, London. Booklet No. 2/81.

Booklet, Long-term hospital care in the UK the R.H.H.I. Model, by John Wedgwood. Booklet No. 1/82. Reprinted from the international seminar on the long term care of disabled people, London, 13 January 1981.

Booklet, 'Research at the Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables' by John Wedgwood. Booklet No.3/81.

Brochures and leaflets relating to services provided by the hospital, including information pack about the RHHP with specific leaflets relating to specialist care and treatment provided for certain groups of patient e.g. chronic and progressive neurological disorders and a brochure for the 'Transitional Living Unit', c. 1992.

Biographical account of the life of a patient at the hospital, Joan Gandan.

Images from different angles of John Howard House in Brighton

Register of patients.

Colour and black and white photographs of construction of Chatsworth ward in construction and finished empty wards. Also includes architectural drawing of the ward, interior shots of rooms within ward, including day room and bedrooms and exterior shots of the ward.

Admission case book, with entries numbered 16001-16500.

Various reel to reel films, videocassettes and sound recordings, along with selected digitised copies of films relating to the hospital. These include promotional television appeals for the charity; events and visits from the Royal family, such as the Queen Elizabeth's visit to open Chatsworth Wing, 1978; clinical films showing patients undertake rehabilitative and leisure activities such as hydrotherapy and horseriding, and also recordings of radio shows which featured the Hospital.

Colour presentation films for the Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables. The narrated films provide an overview of the activities and facilities available to patients and includes soundbites from patients. The films shows a typical patient bedroom and common areas of the hospital, such as the cafeteria, Assembly Room and gardens, and some of the activities and services available to patients, including: physiotherapy, occupational therapy, art and pottery classes, furniture making, a patient using a possum typewriter (which was operated with a mouth piece), music therapy and the work undertaken by patients at 'The Factory', where patients were paid to undertaken simple manufacturing tasks for a small income. Finally, the video ends with plans for the new Chatsworth Wing at the hospital, which initially designed to house young disabled residents.

Copy of the 1975 presentation film for the Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables (RHHI). Film includes narrated sound track, though the audio quality is fairly poor, with an audible background crackle throughout the recording. Track duration: 05:54.