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Bonté Elgood: pioneering woman doctor in Egypt
Papers held in the Wellcome Library relating to the life and medical career of Bonté Elgood (née Amos) (1870-1960) have now been catalogued and are available for research. They can be ordered online through the Wellcome Library’s catalogue (ref PP/ELG).… Continue reading
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Newly available: Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics (ACT) papers
Papers held in the Wellcome Library relating to the work of the UK branch of Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics (ACT) have now been catalogued and are available for research. They can be ordered online through the Wellcome Library’s catalogue (ref… Continue reading
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Games Week: A celebration of games in London, 7th-15th July
The History and Heritage Adult Learning London network, convened by the Raphael Samuel History Centre, will be holding a week-long celebration of games in history from 7th-15 July 2012, with events planned at leading museums and archives across London.… Continue reading
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Lecture Announcement – Sustaining Plague Mortality in Late Medieval Milan
The Wellcome Library and the National Endowment for the Humanities 2012 Summer Seminar, ‘Health and Disease in the Middle Ages’, are delighted to announce details of a lecture by Ann G. Carmichael, M.D., Ph.D. (Associate Professor emerita, Indiana University, Bloomington,… Continue reading
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Charles Barbier, Petite typographie privée d’ambulance
At first glance, this image might look familiar. It’s a coded text that uses raised dots to be read by the fingertips. But one group of people who won’t find the code easy to understand are readers of Braille.… Continue reading
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Ballad to Blues
“I went down to the St. James Infirmary I saw my baby there, She’s laid out on a cold white table, So so cold, so white, so fair” So runs the chorus of St James Infirmary: a Blues standard which… Continue reading
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Birth: a changing scene. Part I: Images of home birth in the Wellcome Library
Library Assistant Anna Ostrowska shares with us some of her research for her recent Wellcome Library Insight Session. With current home birth rate in the UK standing at meagre 2.39%, it is easy to forget that less than a hundred… Continue reading
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Conservation In Action: courier trip to USA with items from the Wellcome Library’s Asian Collection
Since 2011, as part of the Preservation and Conservation team, I have been focusing on the preparation of items from the Wellcome Library for internal exhibitions in the Wellcome Collection temporary exhibition space or for external loans, which have seen… Continue reading
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A Fortean encounter with a Merman
This Thursday (31st May), Ross MacFarlane (Research Engagement Officer, Wellcome Library) and Paolo Viscardi (Curator, Horniman Museum) will again sink beneath the waters to explore the murky worlds of mermen and mermaids. They’ll be speaking at the monthly meeting… Continue reading
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Combating the tsetse fly: rare historical reports now available
Brian Hursey was an international expert on the control of tsetse flies, the vector of African trypanosomiasis or “sleeping sickness” in man and animals. As a student, he specialised in the study of tsetse flies and, upon graduation in… Continue reading