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Anna Coleman Ladd

1878

The artist behind the masks

Sir Archibald Hector McIndoe

1900

Introductory Biography

Golf

1910

Frognal House

1915

Site of the Queen's Hospital

Private Deaks

1916

- Before and After

The New Zealand Section

1916

Henry Pickerill makes his mark

Paula Victoria Knaibl

1916

Pioneering Uruguayan surgeon

Rehabilitation at Sidcup

1917

Occupational Health at the Queens Hospital

Private Suave

1917

-Before and after

The Coleman-Ladd Mask

1917

BAPRAS/425

Design and Construction

1917

Achieved at speed

Moving to Sidcup

1917

Planned or Forced?

Faces From the Front Lecture

1917

Andrew Bamji's Royal Society Lecture

Medical Artists

1917

The Queen's Hospital medical illustrators

Expansion of the Queens

1918

Why and how did The Queens Expand?

Plastic Surgery of the Face

1920

Gillies Landmark Work

Lists of Harold Gillies Books and Papers

1920

Books and papers by and about Harold Gillies

Anne Bryson Sutherland

1922

President 1987

McIndoe's path to plastic surgery

1923

His pre-war professional life

Tannafax for Burns

1925

BAPRAS/735

Orpen On Tonks

1929

"Where is the Orpen Child?"

Lady Gillies

1930

Marjorie Clayton

Orpen on Tonk's Pastels

1936

Dickie discovers her mentor's masterpieces

Jacques Joseph's Nasal Instrument Set

1936

Their journey to BAPRAS

Humby's Knife

1938

The advent of predictable thickness skin graft harvest

McIndoe - World War 2 and beyond

1939

His later professional life

The Jugoslavian Connection

1945

John Barron and the development of Jugoslav plastic surgery

How it started

1946

The "Plastic Club"

Sir Harold Gillies

1946

President 1946-47

75 in 75

1946

A timeline for the Association's 75th anniversary

Professor Thomas Pomfret Kilner

1947

President 1947-48, 1955

Creating the Journal

1948

The Official BAPS Scientific Publication

SirArchibald McIndoe

1949

President 1949

“Gillies” Needle Holders

1950

Gillies' personal needle holders

Rainsford Mowlem

1950

President 1950, 1959

Antony Wallace

1951

President 1951, 1963

Richard J V Battle

1952

President 1952, 1967

"Manu Sciente"

1952

Interpreting the Arms

Gillies' Tankard

1953

Object BAPRAS/794

John N Barron

1953

President 1953, 1975

David Matthews

1954

President 1954, 1971

Wilfred Hynes

1956

President 1956

Rowland P Osborne

1957

President 1957

Gillies in India

1957

His role in the development of Indian plastic surgery units

J S Tough

1958

President 1958

BAPSN

1960

British Association of Plastic Surgery Nurses

Lewis Bust

1960

BAPRAS /754

Percy H Jayes

1960

President 1960

The Revolution in Burns Management

1960

The story of Zora Janzecovic in Slovenia

G H Morley

1961

President 1961

Joseph P Reidy

1962

President 1962

Eric Preet

1964

President 1964

Sir Benjamin Rank

1965

President 1965

G M Fitzgibbon

1966

President 1966

Drum Dermatome

1967

Harvesting skin grafts evolves

Fenton Braithwaite

1968

President 1968

John Watson

1969

President 1969

Tom Gibson

1970

President 1970

SRTC Meetings

1971

“Always had a very academic profile”

Raoul Sandon

1972

President 1972

Dennis Bodenham

1973

1973

Richard Dawson

1974

President 1974

The "Chinese" flap

1975

A common flap

Norman C Hughes

1977

President 1977

The Visits

1978

Units and surgeons visited

Not Just Work!

1978

The Social Programme

A Campbell Buchan

1978

President 1978

Ian A McGregor

1979

President 1979

History of The BAPRAS Collection

1980

History of The BAPRAS Collection

R T Routledge

1980

President 1980

Maurice H Kinmonth

1981

President 1981

Ian F K Muir

1982

President 1982

Thomas L Barclay

1983

President 1983

Michael N Tempest

1984

President 1984

Ivor W Broomhead

1985

President 1985

David O Maisels

1986

President 1986

Hugh G Brown

1988

President 1988

Ronald W Hiles

1989

President 1989

John Colville

1990

President 1990

Antony C H Watson

1991

President 1991

William H Reid

1992

President 1992

Professor Roy Sanders

1993

President 1993

Philip J Sykes

1994

President 1994

Magdy N Saad

1995

President 1995

Timothy M Milward

1996

President 1996

Brian D G Morgan

1997

President 1997

Brian C Sommerlad

1998

President 1998

Alan G Leonard

1999

President 1999

Douglas S Murray

2000

President 2000

David S Soutar

2001

President 2001

Michael D Brough

2002

President 2002

Martin A P Milling

2003

President 2003

Hugh Phillips, PRCS

2004

The "Accidental" Official Portrait

Professor Michael J Earley

2004

President 2004

The Heritage Professionals

2005

The Museum Professionals

Christopher TK Khoo

2005

President 2005

A Surgeon's Tale

2005

Haroon Siddiqui and the Kashmir Earthquake

The Kashmir 2005 earthquake

2005

The UK plastic surgery response

Robert E Page

2006

President 2006

From BJPS to JPRAS

2006

The Journal Reborn

Exhibitions List 

2007

Exhibitions Contributed To By The Archive and Collection 

Christopher C Walker

2007

President 2007

Diana “Dickie” Orpen – Surgeon’s Artist

2008

The Exhibitions 2008-2009.

Roger Green

2008

President 2008

Professor Simon P J Kay

2009

President 2009

Eric Freedlander

2010

President 2010

Richard H Milner

2012

President 2012

BFIRST

2012

Training the World in plastic surgery

Graeme B Perks

2013

President 2013-2014

Nigel S G Mercer

2015

President 2015 - 2016

David J Ward

2017

President 2017-2018

Mark Henley

2019

President 2019 - 2020

Pinna

2020

Ruth Waters

2021

President 2021 - 2022

Conserving the Arms

2022

Preserving the velum document

Maniram Ragbir

2023

President 2023 - 2024

Glossary

2024

A glossary of medical terms appearing on this website

BFIRST in Zimbabwe

2024

A first visit to Bulawayo

Microsurgery at Ganga Hospital

2024

A BFIRST Fellowship

BAPRAS in India

2024

Association of Plastic Surgeons of India Conference 2024

How it started
Curator's Spotlight

How it started

"What do you chaps think about forming a Plastic Club?" - Harold Gillies Early in 1944, although arguably “home” to Plastic Surgery as an organised specialty since the First World War, the UK still lacked a national unifying organisation to guide it. Joint meetings were occasionally held...