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Here’s a tantalising glimpse into the Maurice Wilkins archive by Geoff Browell, Senior Archives Services Manager at King’s College Archives Services. This is another in our series on key figures in the history of genetics, who form part of the… Continue reading

Katy Makin, project archivist at University College London, provides some fascinating insights into the life and personality of J B S Haldane, one of the ‘Makers of Modern Genetics’ whose papers were digitised for the Codebreakers online resource.  The original… Continue reading

Philippa Kaina, a first year medical student at Barts and the London, recounts her experiences of the ‘Introduction to the History of Medicine’ course run by the Wellcome Library and Society of Apothecaries . The three-day ‘Introduction to the History of Medicine’… Continue reading

Every year around this time, the Archives and Manuscripts department hosts a student from the UCL Archives and Records Management MA course. The aim of this two week placement is for the student to put into practice what they have… Continue reading

The Wellcome Library and the Society of Apothecaries jointly organise a mini-course introducing medical students to the History of Medicine.  Here offering her thoughts on the recent 3-day course, is Anusha Ganesh – a 4th year medical student from the… Continue reading

In the second of our series introducing the digitised archive collections in the Codebreakers: makers of modern genetics resource, Dr Sam Maddra, archivist at the Glasgow Universtiy Archive Services  introduces the Pontecorvo papers.  The original papers are located at The… Continue reading

Rachael Russell recently completed a PhD at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester, the title of her thesis being ‘Nausea and Vomiting: A History of Signs, Symptoms and Sickness in Nineteenth-Century… Continue reading

Nina Mitchell is a writer based in Boston, Massachusetts. Her blog, Mindpop.net, chronicles her stroke using Wellcome Images. Follow her on Twitter @mindpop.  I have a story to tell. I had a stroke when I was 26. My mind disappeared… Continue reading

Multidisciplinary artist and independent scholar Joanna Ebenstein shares her discoveries from a recent research visit to the Wellcome Library. I had the great pleasure of spending many hours over the past few weeks exploring the Wellcome Library. I came away… Continue reading

Dr Shane McCorristine is a Marie Curie Fellow (COFUND, Irish Research Council) at NUI Maynooth and University of Cambridge. McCorristine is an interdisciplinary historian who is currently writing up a project on embodiment and disembodiment in British Arctic exploration. Here… Continue reading