Narrating digital economies of deservingness
In Part 6 of the Hospital Chary takeover, Nora Kenworthy shares two poems from her recently published book Crowded Out (2024), where health care crowdfunding campaign narratives become evocative choruses.
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Charity and hospitals: the past or the future?
In Part 5 of the Hospital Charity takeover, Fanny Chabrol reflects on charity in the building and operating of hospitals, detailing its inextricable links with capitalist cultures
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Charles, Diana, and Great Ormond Street Hospital
In Part 4 of the Hospital Charity takeover, Agnes Arnold-Forster traces the history of Great Ormond Street Hospital’s fundraising campaigns and the Royal Family’s involvement in them.
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The visual culture of annual reports: charity in an NHS hospital
In Part 3 of the Hospital Charity takeover, Hannah Blythe analyses United Sheffield Hospitals’ annual reports and explores the boundary between charity and state-funded healthcare in the first decades of the NHS
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Children’s views of healthcare fundraising as ‘idioms of childhood’
In Part 2 of the Hospital Charity takeover, Francesca Vaghi discusses children’s perspectives on charitable fundraising, exploring how meaningful engagement with young people can, and should be developed.
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Ribbons to Rainbows: visual histories of charity and the NHS
In Part 1 of the Hospital Charity takeover, Frances Williams provides a visual analysis of fundraising posters, considering the past, present, and future of charity in the NHS.
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The gift relationship: social and cultural dynamics of charity in healthcare
In this Polyphony takeover, we explore the texture of relationships through a selection of contributions on the social and cultural dynamics of charity and healthcare across place and time.
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Charity and Children’s Hospitals: reflections from a one-day Symposium
In December 2023, the Border Crossings team hosted the Symposium: ‘Charity and Children’s Hospitals: Exceptionalism, Experiences and Welfare,’ at the University of Strathclyde.
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Fundraising for the NHS: Policy and Practice in Scotland by Dr Ellen Stewart (University of Strathclyde) and Dr Kathy Dodworth (University of Edinburgh)
We explore the role of Scotish NHS charities within Scotland’s tax-funded NHS, arguing that wealth disparities between different charities risk exacerbating inequalities in provision
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Getting back to the Archives by Gareth Millward
As the country begins to open up, so are the nation’s archives. While not every library, county records office, museum or …
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