1st Southern General Hospital photograph album

Album comprising images of the 1st Southern General Hospital at the University of Birmingham during the First World War. Comprises souvenir postcards and photographs, some carrying captions.

The 1st Southern General Hospital (also written as First Southern General Hospital) was a military hospital set up at the University of Birmingham during the First World War.

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Purchased pre-2021.

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Permission to make any published use of any material from the collection must be sought in advance in writing from the Director of Special Collections. Identification of copyright holders of unpublished material is often difficult. Special Collections will assist where possible with identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material.

Cadbury Research Library holds the papers of other staff of the 1st Southern General Hospital, namely William Billington (US100) and Kathleen Grace Lloyd (MS44), and records of the University of Birmingham (ask staff for details).

The records of the University include a complete set of 'The "Southern" Cross' magazine which was produced monthly by staff and patients of the hospital between 1916-1919 (UC/9/iii/25); a second, incomplete, set is held in Cadbury Research Library book collection (shelfmark r R31 S9). Within the University archive collections, there is a letter from [Kathleen Grace] Lloyd to Margery Fry, agreeing to the terms of the rental of University House as a nurses' hostel, 1914 (UB/HUH/A/3/1/2, item 9); and press cuttings from Birmingham newspapers relating to the university including an article of the use of the Great Hall as a hospital during the First World War and the work of Kathleen Grace Lloyd as matron (reference US133).

An embroidered quilt made for Kathleen Lloyd by her patients in the hospital, 1917-1918, is held by Research and Cultural Collections, University of Birmingham (reference: A891).

Associated Materials
Records relating to the 1st Southern General Hospital, Birmingham, were featured in 'Suburban Birmingham: Spaces & Places, 1880-1960', a partnership project led by the University of Birmingham, and produced by Birmingham Archives & Heritage, Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, and University of Birmingham Special Collections; the project website (2011) is available at http://www.connectinghistories.org.uk/suburban-birmingham/