About this Event
Long before modern healthcare systems were established, Thorney Island became a centre for innovation in hospital care by concentrating for the first time on curing patients and not just caring for them as religious foundations and charities did in earlier times. It created the world's first public subscription hospital. Thorney Island played a vital role in redefining what healthcare could be.
Join us in the newly refurbished Archives for this talk, followed by a discussion.
Victor Keegan is a former Guardian journalist who has written three books on Lost London including his latest published this year “Thorney, London‘s forgotten Island“
More information: https://tinyurl.com/mvsk8469
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Thorney Island Society, 10 Old Pye Street, London, United Kingdom
GBP 10.00 to GBP 12.00
