Supporting the War Effort: The Convalescent Hospital at ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ during the First World War
Issue number
(2025): 23
Throughout the First World War, the gardens of ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, Oxford were transformed from their usual calm greenery into a sea of tents and bustling activity—becoming a convalescent hospital designed to support the work of the Third Southern General Hospital in Oxford, which had its headquarters in the Examination Schools. Sources held primarily in the archives of ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ can reveal the role played by the hospital at ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ within the hospital system in Oxford during the conflict, and its development over time as the war progressed.
Photograph of Mabel Wace and ten soldiers in the grounds of ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, 1915
Magdalen ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Archives, Oxford, P/408/P2/27