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Recording of Cicely Saunders' talk, 'The evolution of hospice care', on topics including: the nineteenth century origins of modern hospices; Saunders' personal encounters with patients; the establishment of St Christopher's Hospice; the principles of the modern hospice movement. Poor quality VHS recording. Duration: 60 mins. CLOSED.

Collected travel souvenirs, memorabilia, drawings and sculptures including: a gold plated ashtray from Zagreb, Croatia; souvenir medals and certificates, including a badge from a Mexican nature reserve; a soapstone carving of an elephant; Polish decorated wooden Easter eggs; a maroon kaftan; a model of a Japanese woman in traditional costume; a commemorative plate for the centenary of the Florence Nightingale Nursing Training School, St Thomas' Hospital, 1960.

Cicely Saunders' diary kept during a lecturing and sight-seeing visit to the USA and the Bahamas, May-June 1981, with her husband, Marian Bohusz-Szyszko, covering Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, New York, Boston and Nassau. Diary contains contact details, collected memorabilia, and notes on religion.

Cicely Saunders' travel diary for 1980 and 1981, including: a conference in Sicily, March 1980; a tour of the USA and Canada, September-October 1980, when she visited local hospices and gave several presentations; New York, Feb 1981, when she was interviewed by Newsweek magazine.

Cicely Saunders' diary of overseas travel during 1979, including a lecture tour of South Africa, March 1979; New York, May 1979; San Francisco, June 1979, Washington DC September 1979 and Egypt, October 1979. Volume includes contact details, inserted postcards, and lists of birds sighted in South Africa.

Travel diary for visits by Cicely Saunders to Poland, June 1978, and to the USA, September 1978, the latter covering Dallas, Kentucky University, Charlottesville, Washington DC and New York. Diary includes itinerary details, contact information, daily entries and inserted receipts, bills and notes.

Travel diary for a 1977 world trip by Cicely Saunders and Marian Bohusz-Szyszko (later Saunders' husband), visiting San Francisco, Fresno, Perth, Sydney, Singapore, Athens, Tel Aviv, Bethlehem and Jerusalem. Diary contains photographs, hotel bills and a pressed flower.

Diary of a tour of the USA by Cicely Saunders, February-April 1973, visiting New York, Los Angeles, Reno, San Francisco, Phoenix, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Georgetown. Diary includes detailed notes on the travel schedule, her personal impressions, contact information, and lists of cards and presents given.

Diary of a tour of the USA by Cicely Saunders, 28 February-23 March 1973, visiting New York, Yale School of Nursing, Atlanta, St Louis and Chicago. Diary includes notes on nursing and hospital visits, tour itinerary, contact list and general notes on schedules and activities. The diary also includes entries for a holiday in Jerusalem, 14 April-4 May 1973, and a three day conference in Zagreb, Croatia, 11 May-14 May 1973.

Diary of a tour of the USA by Cicely Saunders, April – May 1966, including a month spent teaching at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, and visits to New York, Boston and Cleveland. Diary includes meeting notes on pain medication, contact information and memorabilia, including a printed postcard of a painting by Marian Bohusz-Szyszko (later Saunders' husband).

Diary of a tour of the USA by Cicely Saunders, 10 May-15 June 1965, visiting New York, Philadelphia, Yale University, Harvard University, Charlottesville, Washington DC, Baltimore, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Kansas City, with notes on schedules, meetings and lectures. Also details of a later visit to the USA by Saunders, October-November 1970, including notes on personal impressions and travel information.

Diary of a tour of the USA by Cicely Saunders, 27 March – 30 May 1963, visiting palliative care services and individuals, and giving lectures. The tour covered New York, Yale University, Boston, Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Vancouver. Volume includes daily diary entries and contact information for the people and institutions visited.

Travel diary covering four separate trips to the USA and Canada by Cicely Saunders, 1976, making professional and social visits to institutions in Chicago, Denver, Vancouver, Montreal, McGill, Buffalo, Halifax and elsewhere.

Travel brochures, postcards, maps, pamphlets and guide books for holiday destinations and places of interest visited by Saunders. File includes sites in the UK and abroad including USA, Italy and Turkey and chiefly reflects her interests in history, ecclesiastical architecture and wildlife.

Typescript transcripts of recorded conversations between Cicely Saunders and patients, St Joseph's Hospice, on topics including their experiences of pain, symptoms, life in a hospital ward, attitudes towards death and religious faith.

Transcripts of recorded interviews conducted by Cicely Saunders with patients at St Joseph's Hospice, on topics including their pain, their symptoms and their attitudes to death.

Transcripts of recorded interviews conducted by Cicely Saunders with patients at St Joseph's Hospice, on topics including their pain, their symptoms and their attitudes to death.

Transcripts of recorded interviews conducted by Cicely Saunders with patients at St Joseph's Hospice, on topics including their pain, their symptoms and their attitudes to death.

Transcripts of recorded interviews conducted by Cicely Saunders with patients at St Joseph's Hospice, on topics including their pain, their symptoms and their attitudes to death.