The story of Bethlehem Hospital from its foundation in 1247

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Object Details

Category: Books
Related period: Pre-1914 (content), Pre-1914 (content)
Creator: O'Donoghue, Edward Geoffrey (Author)
T. Fisher Unwin (Publisher)
Production date: 1914
Place made: London
Dimensions: whole: Dimensions: 23cm., Pagination: xx, 427p., 45 leaves of plates ill., facsims., frontis., ports.
Catalogue number: LBY 82 / 2226

Object associations

Associated people and organisations

[ Bethlem Royal Hospital]
Associated places

Great Britain
UK
Associated subjects

libraries, archives and museums
imperial war museum
bedlam, royal bethlehem hospital
civilian hospitals
civil hospitals

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