Author: Chris Hilton

We mentioned in the last round up of new archives and manuscripts cataloguing that there is considerable overlap between May’s work and June’s: data released to the public in early June included a large amount of material created in May.… Continue reading

At regular intervals later this afternoon, 189 young men will launch themselves and their bicycle down a ramp on Rotterdam’s Zuidplein, turn north and explode along the Dordstelaan towards the huge sweep of the Erasmus Bridge, legs pumping and lungs… Continue reading

Our programme to convert all archive catalogues to electronic form passed another milestone this month, with the release to the database of our single largest remaining collection. The papers of the biochemist Sir Ernst Boris Chain (1906-1979) comprise some 67… Continue reading

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways (Proverbs 6:6) Over a million species described – and maybe another six or seven million out there awaiting description. Insects account for maybe half of all living species – and when… Continue reading

Every month we post a summary of new archive cataloguing on the Wellcome Library blog, complementing the information about other new material available from by RSS feeds from the main catalogue of books, images, film and sound. May’s report is… Continue reading

The papers of Sir John Vane are now available for consultation in the Wellcome Library(PP/JRV). Sir John Robert Vane (1927-2004) was an eminent pharmacologist, who published over 900 scientific papers, was joint editor of 20 books, and received over 50… Continue reading

Hannah Stewart, 21 years of age of a good habit of body, a married Woman was brought into the Hosp[ita]l on Wednesday night the 7th Inst. with a compound Fracture of the Wrist Joint wherein both Radius and Ulna were… Continue reading

Three new collections of twentieth century archives dominate this month’s cataloguing highlights. As described in a recent blog post, the papers of the various organisations that combined in 1982 to form the British Thoracic Society have now been catalogued. They… Continue reading

Two new sources for the study of tuberculosis are now available in the Library’s Archives and Manuscripts department. The Library has recently acquired the records of the British Thoracic Society: they have now been catalogued and made available for research… Continue reading

As we mentioned in early March, the blog will now feature monthly round-ups of archives and manuscripts material newly available to the public or newly visible on our online database. The main newly available collection is that of the papers… Continue reading