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Images from the collections

Images about Social service

12 images from works
  • Housing & social work services : housing services for people with HIV / Southwark Council.
  • Housing & social work services : housing services for people with HIV / Southwark Council.
  • Positive choices : choix positifs : pour les personnes affectées par le VIH et le SIDA / The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
  • Positive choices : choix positifs : pour les personnes affectées par le VIH et le SIDA / The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
  • Housing & social work services : housing services for people with HIV / Southwark Council.
  • A woman tells her friend how she pretended to be poor and got free accommodation at the Hospital Lariboisière for 40 days. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • Positive choices : choix positifs : pour les personnes affectées par le VIH et le SIDA / The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
  • A wife tells her husband to add her charitable givings to his records of their outgoings. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • Positive choices : choix positifs : pour les personnes affectées par le VIH et le SIDA / The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
  • The destitute wait for welfare assistance; an old man is told by an official that he will have to come back in eight days. Colour reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • Tiles found in the new wards for homeless poor, Whitechapel, 1866. Watercolour painting.
  • Saint John of God. Etching by F. Garzoli after F. Bigioli after F. Della Valle.

Works from the collections

71 works

    • Books

    The social servant in the making : a review of the provision of training for the social services / by Elizabeth Macadam.

    Macadam, Elizabeth, 1871-1948. | Date: [1945]
    • Books

    Social work : an outline for the intending student / by Noel Timms.

    Timms, Noel. | Date: 1970
    • Books

    Drug-related social work in street agencies : a study by the Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence / Nicholas Dorn and Nigel South.

    Dorn, Nicholas | Date: 1984
    • Books

    Jacobsen of Carlsberg : brewer and philanthropist / by Kristof Glamann ; translated by Geoffrey French.

    Glamann, Kristof. | Date: 1991
    • Books

    William Pulteney Alison : activist philanthropist and pioneer of social medicine / Sheonagh M.K. Martin.

    Martin, Sheonagh M. K. | Date: 1995

Related topics

Charities
Humanitarianism
Public welfare
United Kingdom
Endowment of research
Charity organization
Endowments
Social Problems
Social Welfare
Social Work

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