England’s oldest hospital gets a central London exhibition

To mark its 900th anniversary, an exhibition about Barts Hospital has opened that tells the history of the organisation, from its early religious foundation to a charity and now a major NHS hospital.Unique in being England’s oldest hospital still running on the same location, St Bartholomew’s Hospital first opened its doors to Londoners in 1123, but nearly closed when the dissolution of the monasteries took away most of its income. It was saved by the City of London, which took over