Royal Hospital School pupils and the First World War

The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats, 2004

This paper sets down the names and positions of the Principal Officers of the Royal Hospital School and its predecessors. Items in red need further investigation, and the dates are not yet precisely known, although they are accurate to the year.

The Loveless Report was prepared for a Commission of Enquiry into the state of Greenwich Hospital, of which Loveless was Secretary. He is recognised as an authority on the history of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, generally known as Greenwich Hospital. It is known that a previous history of the school was prepared by Loveless's predecessor, but this has long been lost, making Loveless's version the oldest extant history.

2013

This thesis is being submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of …MPhil History…… (insert MCh, MD, MPhil, PhD etc, as appropriate) Signed … Paul Methven …………(candidate) Date …18 December 2013 STATEMENT 2 This thesis is the result of my own independent work/investigation, except where otherwise stated. Other sources are acknowledged by explicit references. The views expressed are my own.

Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly, 2001

ABSTRACT: The years following the end of the First World War were a time of great change, not least in the field of healthcare. Rising costs and demand ensured that traditional philanthropic sources of income became increasingly insufficient. This necessitated the emergence of new patterns of funding in Britain’s voluntary hospitals with a greater place for contributory schemes, direct patient payments and arrangements with the public sector. One aspect of such change was that the largely passive role, in which charitable provision had traditionally held the patient, was called into question. This article places this specific issue within context of the various ideological conceptions of healthcare, each defining the role of the patient in a different way. These are briefly outlined before the local case study of Bristol - and the Bristol Royal Infirmary (hereafter the Infirmary) in particular - is used to consider the impact that changes in voluntary hospital funding had on the role in which the patient was cast (here termed the ‘patient contract’). Although there were major changes in funding, most notably the introduction of a patient payment scheme in 1921, the patient contract remained in essence philanthropic. This was the result of a clear ideological commitment, most obviously on the part of the Faculty, to the treatment of the sick poor.

Educational Considerations, 2020

The First World War and Health, 2020

The pattern of war is shaped in the individual mind by small individual experiences, and I can see these things as clearly today as if they had just happened.1 In his memoir, The Gates of Memory (1981), published over sixty years after his service as a Medical Officer in the Great War, Geoffrey Keynes emphasises that personal remembrance of care-giving near the front lines is not due to any grand narrative but to quotidian and simple details that remain indelible and distinct even against the passage of time. In opening 'the gates of memory', Keynes performs a kind of witnessing, one which is central to the letters, diaries and memoirs of other medical personnel written during and after 1914-1918. In laying bare their experiences, often in graphic terms, medical accounts by men and women bear witness to the suffering of the multitude of soldiers they treated. Such bearing witness might also be read as a form of atonement for the inability to save so many, and perhaps at times as a remembering that is also a memorial. As Keynes admits in understated terms characteristic of much medical writing: ' "doing our best" was often distressingly inadequate.'2 Since medical care in war zones positions personnel as both witnesses to and participants in the carnage of war nowhere, arguably, is the relationship 1 Geoffrey Keynes, The Gates of Memory (Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1981), p. 138. 2 Keynes, p.128.