Feeling Blue

Colour and the Modern British Hospital

Victoria Bates

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Manchester University Press
01 September 2025

Series: Social Histories of Medicine

Feeling blue is the first book-length history of colour in modern hospitals.

It examines colour in relation to six key themes

hygiene, emotion, humanisation, homeliness, play, consumerism

which are tied together by the idea of the 'modern' hospital. The book does not simply describe changes to the appearance of hospitals over time, but instead thinks expansively about the role of colour in shaping how hospitals felt. It uses colour to understand the layered meanings of modernity in twentieth-century Britain, and its relationship to the 'mundane' or everyday life of hospitals.

By: Victoria Bates
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781526168511
ISBN 10: 1526168510
Series: Social Histories of Medicine
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 September 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Victoria Bates is Associate Professor in Modern Medical History at the University of Bristol