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Dr Andrea Tanner

Current post:Research Fellow in History
Email:tannea@gosh.nhs.uk
School:Social Science
Extension:N/a
Location:PR
Profile
I have been working at Kingston as a Research Fellow in History since 2000. This fellowship, attached to the Centre for Local History Studies, is linked to my post at the Great Ormond Street Hospital Archives, thereby providing a strong basis for research collaboration between and beyond the two institutions.

Since 1995, my publications have centred on poverty, health and disease in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At Kingston, my work has concentrated on the creation of the Great Ormond Street Historic Patient Database, and in expanding the methodology developed by the Centre for Local History Studies to other hospital records. This entails a good deal of proselytising among the archive and research communities, and this will continue with the Evelina and Alexandra Hip Hospital Projects.

In my role as Users’ Chair of Archives for London, I am able to keep up to date with developments and research in London record repositories, and assist in running the seminar and conference programme.

Research for the tercentenary of Fortnum and Mason has awakened an interest in the work of Eric Ravillious and Edward Bawden, and I am currently undertaking exploratory work with a view to publishing on these influential artists.
Educational and professional qualifications
1995PhD, Birkbeck College, University of London
1977MA Comparative Labour History, University of Warwick
1976BA (Hons) Economic History and English Literature, University of Strathclyde
Professional experience (post-1990)
2000-presentArchive assistant, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
2000-presentResearch fellow and Leader of the Great Ormond Street Database project, Kingston University
1996-1999Research officer, Centre for Metropolitan History
1987-presentHonorary archivist, Fortnum & Mason
1986-1996Tutor, Birkbeck College, Extra Mural Department
1984-1996Genealogist to the Clarenceux King of Arms, College of Arms
Research supervision
Two successful doctoral completions.
Funding
Friends of the Children of Great Ormond Street: To put the historic patient database on the internet
The Wellcome Trust: To codify the diseases on the historic patient database
The Wellcome Trust: To create a database of the in-patients at Great Ormond Street, 1852-1914
The Wellcome Trust: To create databases of Victorian and Edwardian in-patients at Evelina and Alexandra Hip Hospitals
Professional activity
Fellow, Society of Antiquaries, London (FSA), Society of Genealogists (FSG). Chair, Users’ section, Archives for London. Since 1999, Vice-President of the Friends of the National Archives.

Broadcasts:
- Interviewed in ‘Flu - a medical mystery’, BBC Radio 4 (2 February 2003)
- Patient experience at Great Ormond Street Hospital 1852-1948. (Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4, 14 Feb 2002)

Has delivered numerous conference and seminar papers.
Research outputs
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Number of items: 20.

Article

Tanner, Andrea (2006) Dust-O! Rubbish in Victorian London, 1860-1900. London Journal, 31(2), pp. 157-178. ISSN (print) 0305-8034

Tanner, Andrea (2006) "The influenza fiend": how the pandemic of 1918-19 affected Hackney. Hackney History, 11, ISSN (print) 1360-3795

Tanner, Andrea (2005) For the love of the children: the history of Great Ormond Street Hospital. Ancestors, 36,

Martino, D. , Tanner, A. , Defazio, G. , Church, A. J. , Bhatia, K. P. , Giovannoni, G. and Dale, R. C. (2005) Tracing Sydenham's chorea: historical documents from a British paediatric hospital. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 90(5), pp. 507-511. ISSN (print) 0003-9888

Tanner, Andrea (2004) Ospedali e sanita: The sentimental hard-sell: establishing the idea of the children's hospital in Victorian London. Melanges de l'Ecole francaise de Rome: Italie et mediterranee, 116(2), pp. 883-898. ISSN (print) 1123-9891

Tanner, Andrea (2003) The Great Ormond Street historical patient database project. Archives: The Journal of the British Records Association, 28(109), pp. 132-142. ISSN (print) 0003-9535

Tanner, A. (2002) The best laid plans: Peter le Neve and his misappropriated manuscripts. Genealogists' magazine, 27(5), pp. 208-213. ISSN (print) 0016-6391

Tanner, Andrea (2002) The Spanish lady comes to London: the influenza pandemic 1918-1919. London Journal, 27(2), pp. 51-76. ISSN (print) 0305-8034

Tanner, Andrea (2002) The threepenny doctor: Henry Percy Jelley of Hackney. Journal of Medical Biography, 10(1), pp. 28-39. ISSN (print) 0967-7720

Tanner, Andrea (2002) Victorian children on the wards: Great Ormond Street Hospital registers project. The Lancet, 359(9309), pp. 897-898. ISSN (print) 0140-6736

Tanner, A. (2001) Charles Booth goes online. Genealogists' magazine, 27(2), pp. 25-27. ISSN (print) 0016-6391

Tanner, Andrea (2001) The threepenny doctor revisited. Hackney History, 7, pp. 33-41. ISSN (print) 1360-3795

Tanner, Andrea I (1999) The casual poor and the City of London Poor Law Union, 1837-1869. The Historical Journal, 42(1), pp. 183-206. ISSN (print) 0018-246X

Tanner, Andrea (1999) The last of the Fortnums. Journal of the History of Collections, 11(2), pp. 147-157. ISSN (print) 0954-6650

Mooney, Graham , Luckin, Bill and Tanner, Andrea (1999) Patient pathways: solving the problem of institutional mortality in London during the later nineteenth century. Social History of Medicine, 12(2), pp. 227-269. ISSN (print) 0951-631X

Tanner, Andrea (1998) A troublesome priest: a Victorian workhouse chaplain in the City of London. London Journal, 23(1), pp. 15-31. ISSN (print) 0305-8034

Book

Tanner, Andrea (2001) Bricks and mortals: 75 years of the Kensington Housing Trust. London : Kensington Housing Trust. 92p. ISBN 9780954203900

Book Section

Tanner, Andrea (2007) Choice and the children's hospital: Great Ormond Street Hospital patients and their families 1855-1900. In: Borsay, Anne and Shapely, Peter, (eds.) Medicine, charity and mutual aid: the consumption of health and welfare in Britain, c. 1550-1950. Aldershot, UK : Ashgate. pp. 135-161. (Historical Urban Studies) ISBN 9780754651482

Tanner, Andrea (2007) Too many mothers?: female roles in a metropolitan Victorian children's hospital. In: Henderson, John , Horden, Peregrine and Pastore, Alessandro, (eds.) The impact of hospitals, 300-2000. Oxford, U.K. : Peter Lang. pp. 135-166. ISBN 9783039110018

Mooney, Graham and Tanner, Andrea (2006) Infant mortality, a spatial problem: Notting Dale special area in George Newman's London. In: Garrett, Eilidh , Galley, Chris , Shelton, Nicola and Woods, Robert, (eds.) Infant mortality: a continuing social problem. A volume to mark the centenary of the 1906 publication of 'Infant Mortality: a Social Problem' by George Newman. Aldershot, UK : Ashgate. pp. 169-189. ISBN 9780754645931

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