{"id":4305,"date":"2014-05-16T04:03:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T18:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=4305"},"modified":"2015-04-29T11:49:31","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T01:49:31","slug":"bringing-our-history-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/bringing-our-history-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing our history to life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now and Then, the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) Heritage Project, is run by a project team\u00a0comprising RCH staff and historians from Context<\/a>. Our guest bloggers from Context will be giving regular updates on their experiences as they delve into the rich history of the RCH.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The new Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) stands proudly on Flemington Road in Parkville. It is a colourful beacon of extraordinary patient care, world leading medical research and training. The state of the art facilities contain the latest equipment and embody cutting edge theories and practices in paediatric medicine. But the RCH is also a link between the present and the past; this hospital, despite its modern architecture and equipment, has been caring for sick children since the 1870s.<\/p>\n

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The Royal Children’s Hospital on Pelham Street, Carlton. This was the home of the RCH from 1876-1963.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Many of us have stories of the Royal Children’s Hospital \u2013 experiences of visiting a sick friend or family member, or maybe spending time as a patient at the hospital ourselves. Perhaps we visited a specialist there. Or we might have trained at the RCH as a nurse or doctor, or worked there in another capacity. These stories are part of the history and heritage of the Royal Children’s Hospital. It is this heritage, these stories \u2013 both those that can be shared by the community that surrounds the RCH today, and those that can be uncovered in its archival collection \u2013 that are the focus of the RCH Heritage Project. The project aims to uncover, explore and celebrate the heritage of this remarkable hospital and community.<\/p>\n

Over the next six months a team of consultants, including historians, heritage specialists and visual communication and graphic designers, will be undertaking a project specifically commissioned to explore the history and heritage of the hospital. The team will develop a plan that will guide the RCH\u2019s approach to celebrating and communicating its history over the next decade, including its 150th<\/sup> anniversary in 2020.<\/p>\n

Our first task is to get to know the Royal Children\u2019s Hospital. We will do this by exploring the archival collection of this remarkable hospital. We have created this Heritage Blog so that we can share the stories we unearth with you. But we have also created this space so that we can invite you to share your thoughts, recollections and experiences of the Royal Children\u2019s Hospital with us.<\/p>\n

We will be updating the Heritage Blog regularly and asking you to contribute your own stories. We look forward to getting to know you and the Royal Children\u2019s Hospital in the weeks and months to come.<\/p>\n

The Context Team.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The RCH heritage project team brings you the first of its regular updates in bringing our history into the present and future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":4313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4305"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4366,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions\/4366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}