Netley

Philip Hoare, author of Spike Island, will use archive images and film to re-imagine the history of Netley Victorian military hospital through its ruins, and the disparate men and women who worked or visited there.

New evening events in the Wellcome Library (UK) 2009

The Ghosts of Netley, Thursday 23 April, 18.30 – 20.00

New evening events in the Wellcome Library (UK) 2009

And always the buildings being given the Meades once-over, including the Great Disappearing Trick of the Netley Hospital outside Southampton.

The Antidote for Strictly Come Dancing Peter Ashley 2008

Philip Hoare, author of Spike Island, will use archive images and film to re-imagine the history of Netley Victorian military hospital through its ruins, and the disparate men and women who worked or visited there.

March 2009 2009

The Ghosts of Netley, Thursday 23 April, 18.30–20.00

March 2009 2009

In the aftermath of the Crimean war, it became obvious that a top military hospital was needed in Britain, the Royal Victor­ia Mil­it­ary Hospital at Netley.

Questions from a Fellow Blogger Hels 2009

In the aftermath of the Crimean war, it became obvious that a top military hospital was needed in Britain, the Royal Victor­ia Mil­it­ary Hospital at Netley.

Archive 2009-01-01 Hels 2009

The Netley fire is not the first factory farm fire at a Hutterite Colony whose members follow the teachings of Jakob Hutter in sharing communal goods and observing pacifism at least toward humans.

Another Byproduct of Factory Farming: Livestock Incinerating Fires 2008

Back in England, at the shell shock hospitals of Netley and Maghull, doctors began using psychotherapy as a treatment option, their methods concentrating on abreactive or cathartic techniques, designed to enable participants to relive painful experiences which had been suppressed.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

Totally at a loss, army doctors referred to the condition as delusional insanity and packed the patients back off to Blighty, to the Royal Victoria Hospital at Netley and the neurological hospitals in London.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008