Photographs and objects

Photographs

We have a substantial photographic collection, comprising prints, slides, glass plate negatives and digital images.  The collection is an extremely rich resource, illustrating many aspects of the development of medicine and hospitals from the mid-nineteenth century onwards.

Many of our photographs have been digitised and are available from the Heritage Collections images website.

Search Heritage Collections images collection

At present our photographic collection is not fully catalogued, please contact us if you would like to find out more about this collection, or if you are looking for a specific image.

We have contributed some of our photographs to the Trove project, which are available to search online.

More information about Trove.

We have also begun to add small sets of our images to the photo-sharing website Flickr.

Explore LHSA's Flickr page.

Objects

Over the last 30 years, we have built up a small collection of objects as a result of hospital closures and NHS reorganisations. Whilst we don’t normally collect objects, we have taken in a small number of items that were considered to be at risk. 

The majority of the objects are historical surgical and scientific instruments, but there is also a collection of bed plaques and donor boards as well as a number of other artefacts including clocks, silverware, textiles and a small number of works of art. 

The objects have all been photographed and catalogued into a database. The objects themselves are now kept in deep storage at the University Collections Facility. The database is not yet available online, please contact us if you would like to find out more about the objects collection.