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22 blog posts

Gary Jones CBE 23 Apr 2025
History of Orsett Workhouses and Orsett Hospital, Essex

This Blog looks at the history of Orsett Hospital in Essex developed from a workhouse built in 1837 to a 500 bed acute hospital. This blog highlights how many hospitals developed from workhouses and by using Orsett as an example I hope it will inspire readers to research their own local hospital history.
Victoria Sweetmore 2 Apr 2025
Asylum Years: Back to the Future? Glimpses of Institutional Life in the 1970s

This Blog looks at the forthcoming book Asylum Years: Back to the Future? Glimpses of Institutional Life in the 1970s, where readers are invited to step back in time and explore a world that has since vanished; the closed ecosystem of mental health institutions in the early 1970s.