Narrating digital economies of deservingness
In Part 6 of the Hospital Chary takeover, Nora Kenworthy shares two poems from her recently published book Crowded Out (2024), where health care crowdfunding campaign narratives become evocative choruses
Charity and hospitals: the past or the future?
In Part 5 of the Hospital Charity takeover, Fanny Chabrol reflects on charity in the building and operating of hospitals, detailing its inextricable links with capitalist cultures
Charles, Diana, and Great Ormond Street Hospital
In Part 4 of the Hospital Charity takeover, Agnes Arnold-Forster traces the history of Great Ormond Street Hospital’s fundraising campaigns and the Royal Family’s involvement in them
The visual culture of annual reports: charity in an NHS hospital
In Part 3 of the Hospital Charity takeover, Hannah Blythe analyses United Sheffield Hospitals’ annual reports and explores the boundary between charity and state-funded healthcare in the first decades of the NHS
Children’s views of healthcare fundraising as ‘idioms of childhood’
In Part 2 of the Hospital Charity takeover, Francesca Vaghi discusses children’s perspectives on charitable fundraising, exploring how meaningful engagement with young people can, and should, be developed
Ribbons to rainbows: visual histories of charity and the NHS
In Part 1 of the Hospital Charity takeover, Frances Williams provides a visual analysis of fundraising posters, considering the past, present, and future of charity in the NHS
The gift relationship: social and cultural dynamics of charity in healthcare
Ellen Stewart and Francesca Vaghi introduce a 6-part takeover on the culture and consequences of charitable giving in healthcare