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Looking back over history tells us that the habit of thinking about disadvantage in terms of discrete single issues is as old as time – and so it is no surprise that this is how people continue to be portrayed. This is necessarily a brief timeline – a complete history would be a huge project in its own right.
900 AD – First almshouses established
Almshouses, the ancestor of today’s hostels for the homeless, grew out of the monastic obligation to provide lodgings for those in need, and were established in England in the 10th Century, with the first recorded almshouse founded by King Athelstan in York. The word “hospital” derives from these almshouses that sheltered the sick and needy, although that word dates from rather later, the mid 14th century, and also subsequently gave modern English the word “hostel”.
1247 – Bethlem Hospital
Europe’s oldest psychiatric hospital, Bethlem, now part of South London and Maudsley NHS foundation, was founded in 1247 by Christians to provide she...
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