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Barry Doyle
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Prof of History of Health @manchstm.bsky.social interested in hospitals and cities. Also some contemporary British Politics. Like walking in hills sometimes go running!
Chair EuroHealthHist COST Action https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA22159/
One more. This one is on the North East of England and goes back into the 19th century.
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...
Planning, Markets and Hospitals | John Mohan | Taylor & Francis eBooks
Improving access to hospital services has been a goal of public policy in Britain for over seventy years, but the means by which this goal is to be attained
www.taylorfrancis.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I'm sure you know about Helen Rutherford but just in case. www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our...
November 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Thanks Rebecca
The Ur text on this topic is John Pickstone Medicine and Industrial Society archive.org/details/medi...
Also have a look for Steve Cherry on Norfolk and Norwich and Gorsky, Mohan and Willis book on Contributory Schemes. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719065798/
Medicine and industrial society : a history of hospital development in Manchester and its region, 1752-1946 : Pickstone, John V : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
xi, 369 p. : 24 cm
archive.org
November 6, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Martin Gorsky is the guru on this - see his open access chapter here. unipress.hud.ac.uk/plugins/book...
Most of my research deals with the early twentieth century but my book on Leeds and Sheffield does go back into the later nineteenth century. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1... Sadly not OA
Chapter 5:Public, private and voluntary hospitals: economic theory and historical experience in Britain, c.1800-2010
unipress.hud.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM
As a historian you should have a ‘it’s more complicated than that’ option.
November 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Will do!
October 31, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Congratulations 🥳 Great company to be in - and yours is definitely the most prominent!
October 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Like France 2015-20. And still ongoing with the possible strengthening of a left/Green grouping as with the most recent French elections.
October 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I’m still using Monty Python and the Young Ones! 👴
October 15, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Who’s Buffy? 🤷🏻‍♂️
October 15, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Or any achievements really!
September 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM