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In June 1943, Peter Jones had been a qualified doctor for one day when his phone rang. An old friend needed a locum at Mildmay - immediately. Peter got on his pushbike and cycled through the City. By that evening, he was in sole charge of a critically ill two-year-old in the pre-antibiotic era, working from a textbook, in a hospital surrounded by Blitz ruins.

In 1904, a young Irish woman named Norah Hughes arrived at Mildmay to train as a nurse. She left three years later, qualified and engaged to a junior doctor, after a hidden note, a ward fire, and a matron who surprised everyone. She went on to spend two decades in China, training nurses and running a medical mission. Her story is now part of our Staff Stories archive.

In 1955, Pam arrived at Mildmay as a student nurse. She trained across three sites, Mildmay, the London Hospital, and Kingston, living in cold rooms near Shoreditch Church and a concrete hostel in Hoxton. She remembers ward walls lined with Bible texts, daily Quiet Time, and the grey cape with its purple lining that was recognised across east London. Seventy years on, her memories are sharp, warm, and anchored in a hospital that was already something singular.

We have come a long way since 1866, caring for the sick and their dependents during the last major outbreak of cholera in the East End.

We’ve added Miss Marshall’s death certificate to our archives, honouring her 16 years of service as a Mildmay Deaconess.

An album of historical photos was recently donated to Mildmay, offering rare glimpses into our past.

Mildmay’s role during the 1980s AIDS crisis is preserved in the National HIV Story Trust Archive at the London Archives.

A determined young woman drawn to missionary work - initially facing resistance from her family, she trained as a nurse at Mildmay.

We're thrilled to share another update from the archive, thanks to the fantastic research of Andy "K" into his family history...

In May 1938, Queen Mary visited the hospital to open the new Outpatients, drawing national attention to Mildmay.

We're reaching out to anyone who worked at Mildmay from 1985 to 1999 – during Mildmay’s pioneering work in caring for people with HIV/AIDS.

Maud was a nurse at Mildmay in 1921 and worked here for many years. Charlie was a patient admitted after a violent assault...

The mother of a former nurse shared this photo of Mildmay Mission Hospital circa 1949. This is the Children's Ward kitted out for Christmas

Thank you to Priscilla for writing to tell us about her mother's time at Mildmay and her life thereafter.

We recently came across this old postcard of Mildmay hospital on eBay, and so, of course, we had to get it for our archive. The old...

It appears that the Mildmay name has been given to a fabric and wallpaper design in the Arts and Crafts style, which is appropriate...

Going through some old filing cabinets from the old hospital building, which have been stored in our basement until now, we found this gem

A recently acquired Mildmay booklet from circa 1939.