Welfare for the Wounded

The Civil Wars of the 17th century prompted pioneering medical care and welfare, provided by the state not just for soldiers but for the widows and children they left behind, as Eric Gruber von Arni and Andrew Hopper show.

Ely House, London. From a print by F. Grose, c.1783

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