Search the site

Listing
Search the List

What is Listing?

Listing Guidance

Apply for Listing

Missing Pieces Project

Blue Plaque Scheme
Listing

Find out about listed buildings and other protected sites, and search the National Heritage List for England (NHLE).

Find out about listing

Terracotta tiles on the roof of Saintoft Lodge, Newton-on-Rawcliffe, Ryedale, North Yorkshire. Grade II listed © Historic England Archive DP371715
Advice
Climate Change

Heritage at Risk

Your Home

Technical Guidance

Planning

Caring for Heritage

Constructive Conservation
Advice

See our extensive range of expert advice to help you care for and protect historic places.

Get our advice

A contractor cutting bricks for the wall of the partially-restored wild and natural walled garden at Warley Place, Brentwood. Explore our technical advice section © Historic England Archive DP313199
Research
Our Research Strategy and Agenda

Research Governance

Latest Research

Research Methods

Current Research

Research Results

Support & Collaboration

Inclusive Heritage

Heritage Counts
Research

Discover and use our high-quality applied research to support the protection and management of the historic environment.

Discover our research

Archaeologist Dr David Neal discussing his illustration of the mosaic being excavated at Rutland Roman Villa with members of the University of Leicester Archaeological Services team View image DP264265 © Historic England
Images & Books
Find Photos

Search All Publications

Buy Books

The Historic England Archive
Images & Books

Historic England holds an extensive range of publications and historic collections in its public archive covering the historic environment.

Browse our collections

Children play with a doll and a pram on the cobbled Church Path in Queen Camel, Somerset, in April 1953. At the far end of the path is the tower of the Church of St Barnabas, which dates to the 14th century. Photographer: John Gay Image reference: AA091596 © Historic England Archive
Services & Skills
Education

Grants

Our Planning Services

Training & Skills

Archive Services

Heritage Action Zones

Levelling Up Places Service
Services & Skills

Find out about services offered by Historic England for funding, planning, education and research, as well as training and skill development.

Learn about our services

Heritage Apprentices in a training session on the Researching The Historic Environment module and training in Architectural Photography. Find out more about Heritage Apprenticeships © Historic England Archive DP347660
What's New
News

In Your Area

Historic England Blog

Latest Research

Heritage Online Debate

Statements

Stay up to Date
What's New

Read about our current news, projects and campaigns nationally and in your area.

Catch up with what's new

Two horsemen reading The Sportsman, 30 Oct 1902, Farnborough, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. Part of the Alfred Newton and Sons collection. Source Historic England Archive. BB98/02592
About Us
What We Do

Who We Are

How We Are Funded

Contact Us

Careers

Volunteer with Historic England
About Us

Historic England is the public body that helps people care for, enjoy and celebrate England's spectacular historic environment.

Find out more

Mountbatten House (formerly Gateway House), Basing View, Basingstoke, the former headquarters for the paper merchants Wiggins Teape by Arup Associates. Listed at Grade II. © Historic England
Sign in
Manage my account

Sign out

Images by Theme: World War Two - Health and Medicine

A selection of images showing but civilian and military patients and hospital practices during World War Two

The enclosure of ahand in a silk envelope as part of the Bunyan-Stannard treatment of burns

Training the “Child Care Reserve”, National Council for Maternity and Child Welfare, 117 Piccadilly, Westminster, Greater London

Treatment of Effort Syndrome, Mill Hill Emergency Hospital, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, Barnet, Greater London

Viewing X-Rays, St Hugh's Military Hospital (Head Injuries), St Margaret's Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire

A doctor giving a blood transfusion to a baby, Princess Elizabeth of York Hospital for Children, Glamis Road, Tower Hamlets, Greater London

A nurse filling a patient's amputation wound with sulphathiazole, Royal Infirmary, Infirmary Road, Sheffield

A patient whose eye socket is being repaired with a cartilege graft, Bangour Hospital, Broxburn, Edinburgh, Scotland

A physiotherapist giving remedial exercises, Wharncliffe Emergency Hospital, (part of) Middlewood Hospital, Sheffield

A radiographer positioning a man before a chest X-ray, whilst other new recruits queue up at a Navy base

A view of women suffering from shock under blankets on sofas and armchairs, attended to by a nurse

Applying tulle gras dressings to the head and neck of a burnt patient, Queen Victoria Hospital, Holtye Road, East Grinstead, West Sussex

Attaching electrodes to the head of a patient, Sutton Emergency Hospital, Sutton, Greater London

Bottles of dried plasma being packed for transport to the Middle East or where needed

Bunyan-Stannard treatment of burns, King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, Lambeth, Greater London

Children in the classroom, St Michael's Orthopaedic Hospital, Marine Parade East, Clacton on Sea, Essex

Dressing a pedicle graft, Rooksdown House, Park Prewett Hospital, Basingstoke

Dressing a pedicle skin graft, Queen Victoria Hospital, Holtye Road, East Grinstead, West Sussex

Factory producing iron lungs, Morris Motor Works, Hollow Way, Cowley, Oxfordshire

Four men in ARP uniform lifting a patient supported in a Neil Robertson stretcher in a demonstration

Giving a burns patient a saline bath, Queen Victoria Hospital, Holtye Road, East Grinstead, West Sussex

How the surgeon’s rubber gloves are made

Injecting sodium amytal into a patient's arm, Mill Hill Emergency Hospital, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, Barnet, Greater London

Keep fit class, Pioneer Health Centre, St Mary's Road, Southwark, Greater London

Making sphagnum moss dressings, Glasgow, Scotland

Mass administration of oxygen, Middlesex Hospital, Mortimer Street, Westminster, Greater London

New war uniform for nurses, Greater London

Nurse holding equipment needed for a blood transfusion, Army Blood Supply Depot, Southmead Hospital, Southmead Road, Bristol

Nurses in the making, Joyce Grove Convalescent Home, Nettlebed, Oxfordshire

Nurses making beds on the floor in an underground air raid shelter, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester, Greater Manchester

Patients in a yard doing arm exercises, Wharncliffe Emergency Hospital, (part of) Middlewood Hospital, Sheffield

Selecting the records of blood donors, Army Blood Supply Depot, Southmead Hospital, Southmead Road, Bristol