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Bablake Hospital Showing Hill Street, Coventry

Showing exterior of Bablake Hospital with Bond's Hospital to the right.

Blue Cross Fund Poster

A coloured lithographic Blue Cross Fund poster to help the horses. The poster has a print of a horse and a yellow border.

Ford's Hospital from the Garden

View of resident's garden at the back of Ford's Hospital.

Guide Dogs Association Stall, Leamington Spa

Colour photograph, Leamington Spa, August 1968. View of visitors to an outdoor stall for the Guide Dogs Association.

Programme of Events in Aid of Dr Barnardo's

A programme of events in aid of Dr Barnardo's at Leamington Spa. The programme lists piano solos, cast details for Compromising Martha, a comic duet, poesie, songs, pierrots and pierrettes, and Shades ...

Red Cross Agricultural Fund Certificate

A certificate in acknowledgement of the contributions made to the Red Cross and St John through the Rural Pennies section of the Red Cross Agriculture Fund. The certificate dates from June 1945.

Red Cross Agricultural Fund Certificate

This certificate was awarded to Mrs Gibbs, in July 1945, for her fundraising efforts for the Rural Pennies section of the Red Cross Agriculture Fund.

Red Cross Report

A Red Cross report for Warwickshire, 1915-16.

Residents of Ford's Hospital in the Courtyard

Showing thirteen women dressed in caps and cloaks.

Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Christian duty p.53v, detail.

Homilies : life-style advised for Shakespeare and his contemporaries. All children would accompany their parents to church each Sunday, where they would hear the readings from the Bible, and also the ...

Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Feed the Hungry woodcut, p.72v.

Charity: feeding the poor in Shakespeare's time. All communities had their share of the poor and Elizabethans would regularly offer their unwanted ‘left-over’ food to those less fortunate ...

Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Prayers for our enemies, p.54r.

Life-style advice for Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Many of Day’s marginal woodcuts included scripture quotations and advice on lifestyle, such as ministering to the sick. Full title: ...

Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Shelter strangers woodcut, p.53r, detail.

Christian charity offering shelter, in Shakespeare's time. Strangers traveling in the countryside were often made welcome, as Autolycus, Polixenes and Camillo find at the feast in the play of The Winter’s ...

Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Tending the sick woodcut, p.74v, detail.

A family death-bed: a scene familiar to Shakespeare. A generation before William Shakespeare's birth, England was a Roman Catholic country changed by the actions of Henry VIII who declared himself ...

Richard Day, A Booke of Christian prayers..., 1581 - Tending the sick woodcut, p.74v, detail.

Women in the home in Shakespeare's time. The role of women, though legally inferior to men, was in effect recognised of equal importance as they were expected to carry out all the responsibilities ...

Tyne Wrecked Mariners Home Medal

English medal, c.1841 Diameter 45mm Medal struck for the Tyne Wrecked Mariners Home. The obverse features a central unidentified image with the inscription 'TYNE WRECKED MARINERS HOME/ 1841'. The obverse ...

Tyne Wrecked Mariners' Home Medal

A silver coloured medal issued by the Tyne Wrecked Mariners' Home in 1841. The obverse bears a scene of ships being wrecked just off the mainland.

Tyne Wrecked Mariners' Home Medal

A silver coloured medal issued by the Tyne Wrecked Mariners' Home in 1841. The obverse bears a scene of ships being wrecked just off the mainland.

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