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Social science in action: reports from Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR) Archive
The first 130 boxes from the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR) archive have now been catalogued and are available for researchers to discover, explore, and interpret at Wellcome Library. These papers – the registered document series (SA/TIH/B/1) – provide… Continue reading
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Fish fingers and the coal face: launching the Tavistock Institute archive blog
How do you organise the workplace so that it better reflects the needs of its workers? What do housewives think of fish fingers? How can psychology be used and applied to recruitment processes, to help get away from wearing-the-right-colour-tie biases… Continue reading
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From mother to mother: the National Childbirth Trust archive
The newly-catalogued National Childbirth Trust (NCT) archive, containing over 270 boxes of rich archive material, brings to life the history of childbirth and maternity care from the post-war period to the present day. The archive explores how women responded to… Continue reading
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Love in a ‘cold’ climate
Fancy a romantic get-away this Valentine’s day? Forget weekends in Paris, fancy hotels, red roses and oversized teddy bears; from 1946, volunteers flocked to the MRC Common Cold Research Unit (CCU) in Salisbury for a holiday with a twist –… Continue reading
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‘Beds not Bombs’: the archive of the Medical Campaign against Nuclear Weapons
As East and West squared off at the height of the Cold War, the threat of a nuclear attack was all too real. Armed with stark facts about the potential impact of the bomb, a group of doctors and nurses… Continue reading
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Tales of a travelling doctor: ‘neither science nor disease knows any frontiers’
Melville Douglas Mackenzie (1889-1972) was no ordinary doctor. In his lifespan, he travelled the globe providing relief and support to countries stricken with cholera, typhus, malaria, and other rapidly spreading contagions. His travels took him from Mesopotamia to Russia, and… Continue reading
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Foundation for Integrated Health
The papers of the Foundation for Integrated Health, a charity headed by Prince Charles, and established in 1993 to promote greater collaboration between conventional and complementary health, have just been catalogued (ref no: SA/FIH) at the Library. In 2000, the House… Continue reading
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David Galton: early pioneer in chemotherapy treatment
The papers of David Galton (1922-2006), a pioneer of effective chemotherapy treatment for leukaemia and lymphoma, have just been catalogued at the Library. The papers span Galton’s career, documenting early research carried out into the diagnosis and classification of blood… Continue reading
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Fighting the cold war: David Tyrrell and the common cold
Free 10 Day Autumn or Winter Break: You may not win a Nobel Prize, but you could help find a cure for the common cold In 1946, the Common Cold Unit (CCU) opened its doors to volunteers for a ten-day,… Continue reading
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The British Transplantation Society papers (1972-2007)
The recently catalogued papers (SA/BTS) of the British Transplantation Society (BTS) document changing attitudes towards organ and tissue transplantation, in the medical community and more broadly, over a 35-year span. The papers provide an insight into the rapid medical advances… Continue reading