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Social History of Medicine 2001 14(3):525-538; doi:10.1093/shm/14.3.525
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The Archives of the Pioneer Health Centre, Peckham, in the Wellcome Library

LESLEY A. HALL*

* Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine The Wellcome Trust, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK E-mail: I.hall{at}wellcome.ac.uk

This article gives a brief description of this important British experiment in health and community (1926–50) and the historiography relating to it. The archives, which are now in the Wellcome Library, are described. While mention is made of the gaps in the record (and the possible reasons for them), the strengths of the collection are indicated.

Keywords: archives; health; community; Pioneer Health Centre; Peckham; Scott Williamson; Innes Pearse


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