Margaret Saxby recalls that, when she began her nursing training in 1938, the treatments had changed little since Victorian times.
Hospital memories brought to life. The memories and voices of hospital staff and volunteers, as gathered by University of Sussex researchers, are brought to life in a new archive at Brighton's Royal Sussex County Hospital. The 'Our Hospital Our History' project, a collaboration between the University and Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals (BSUH), will be launched on Friday (29 July) to an invited audience, including many of those who contributed to the archive. The launch will feature displays, booklets and presentations of highlights from the many hours of recorded material gathered by experienced oral historians and graduates of the Sussex MA in Life History Research. The organisers hope that this will be the start of a much larger archive and intend to create a website and public exhibition for the material. Project Manager Sam Carroll said: "The hospital life stories that have emerged have not only been historically informative, they have also been at times heart warming, inspirational and frequently surprising. Sometimes they are very sad and sometimes extremely funny.
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