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Pilgrim’s progress : the landscape of the NHS hospital, 1948–70
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DeVane, Ed (2021) Pilgrim’s progress : the landscape of the NHS hospital, 1948–70. Twentieth Century British History, 32 (4). pp. 534-552. doi:10.1093/tcbh/hwab016 ISSN 0955-2359.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwab016
Abstract
This article argues the politics of land-use was fundamental to the challenges of realizing Britain’s welfare state. It makes this case through a focus on efforts to plan and design new hospitals in the National Health Service (NHS) between 1948 and 1970. It pays particular attention to the Pilgrim Hospital in Boston, Lincolnshire which serves as an exemplar of a sort of politics that has been largely overlooked due to an overemphasis on central government. At the Pilgrim, a private landowner claimed inadequate consultation had produced a hospital proposal that was counter to local opinion, resulting in their farmstead being preserved within the grounds of a modern tower-on-podium facility. Working back from this aesthetic compromise, the significance of the landscaped hospital is introduced and situated within patterns of NHS land transactions and conflicts over site acquisition. This analysis re-orientates historical research to better reflect the decentralized nature of post-war planning in Britain. It does so by demonstrating how the welfare state internalized the criticisms of wider publics and powerful existing cultural and economic frameworks. These necessary processes formed the real groundwork for state modernization.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History Faculty of Arts > History > Centre for the History of Medicine |
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SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Pilgrim Hospital (Boston, England) -- History-- History -- 20th century, Hospitals -- England -- Boston -- History -- 20th century, Hospital buildings -- Design and construction -- England -- Boston, Land use -- Political aspects -- England -- Boston -- History -- 20th century, Public health -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century, Hospitals -- Landscape architecture -- England -- Boston -- History -- 20th century | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Twentieth Century British History | ||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||
ISSN: | 0955-2359 | ||||||
Official Date: | December 2021 | ||||||
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Volume: | 32 | ||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 534-552 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/tcbh/hwab016 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 8 February 2022 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 8 February 2022 | ||||||
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