How Glenside Hospital helped to create a little bit of labour history.
Category: Local/labour history
Hidden talents: Art and the Asylum
Artists Stanley Spencer and Denis Reed owe their popularity in part to spending time in Bristol’s Glenside Hospital
Journey into Space
My March column for Fishponds Voice is about volunteer archivists at Glenside Hospital Museum.
Vernon and Vowles’ venerable organ
My February column for Fishponds Voice muses about the sweet sound of the merry organ.
A uniform mystery from a century ago
Researching a humble nurse’s story I came across the origins of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘Hound of the Baskervilles’, Sherlock Holmes’ most famous case.