Throughout the First World War, the gardens of New College, Oxford were transformed from their usual calm greenery into a sea of tents and bustling activity—becoming a convalescent hospital designed to support the work of the Third Southern General Hospital in Oxford, which had its headquarters in the Examination Schools. Sources held primarily in the archives of New College can reveal the role played by the hospital at New College within the hospital system in Oxford during the conflict, and its development over time as the war progressed.

Photograph of Mabel Wace and ten soldiers in the grounds of New College, 1915
Magdalen College Archives, Oxford, P/408/P2/27

Magdalen College Archives, Oxford