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Another Royal Jubilee
Amongst other causes for celebration, 2012 marks the 125th anniversary of the Queen’s Nursing Institute, founded in 1887 by Queen Victoria in the year of her own Golden Jubilee. It received its royal charter in 1889 when it became Queen… Continue reading
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Let us spray? Papers of Leonard Jan Bruce-Chwatt now available
The distinguished malariologist Leonard Jan Bruce-Chwatt (1907-1989) summed up the feelings of many of his contemporaries when, in 1986, he wrote: “We all know the main chapters of the sad saga of global malaria eradication and felt, often personally,… Continue reading
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Targeted preservation: The Human Genome Archive Project
Contemporary is a word not often associated with archives and yet without archivists making plans for contemporary material the archives of the future would be a much poorer place. The Wellcome Library has a history of considering the modern… Continue reading
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Item of the Month, May 2012: ‘De historia stirpium commentarii insignes’
To mark the first international Fascination of Plants Day, May’s Item of the Month features one of the most important historical herbals from our collections ‘De historia stirpium commentarii insignes‘ (or ‘Notable commentaries on the history of plants’) by Leonhart Fuchs was… Continue reading
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Archives from the pioneers of modern genetics to be brought together for the first time
More details have been announced today of the Wellcome Library’s groundbreaking digitisation project, ‘Modern Genetics and its Foundations’. Tens of thousands of notes, letters, sketches, lectures, photographs and essays, produced by the key players in the discovery of the structure… Continue reading
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2012 Roy Porter Lecture: Professor Dorothy Porter
We are thrilled to announce that this year’s Roy Porter Lecture will be given by Dorothy Porter, Professor in the History of Health Sciences and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California… Continue reading
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Geffrye Museum Study Day: ‘At Home with the World’
As part of their current exhibition At Home With the World, the Geffrye Museum is hosting a study day on 19th May, at which historians, specialists and curators will explore the themes of the exhibition in greater depth. Topics discussed… Continue reading
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‘Making History’ at the Wellcome Library
This week’s edition of BBC Radio 4’s series Making History, features an exploration of the Victorian ‘fern craze’. In a sequence recorded in the Wellcome Library, historian Helen Castor and researcher Pia Ostlund, look at this growth in amateur botany in… Continue reading
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Damaging the Body: Loss of Face – Vitriol Throwing in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Britain
The last seminar in the current series Damaging the Body: Physical Harm and the Self, 1850 – 2010, will take place in the Wellcome Library next Wednesday evening. Details: Wednesday 2 May Dr Katherine Watson (Oxford Brookes University) Loss of Face: Vitriol… Continue reading
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Item of the Month, April 2012: ‘On Indigenous Malaria’
As today is World Malaria Day, our Item of Month for April focuses on one of the thousands of works the Library holds on the disease. The term ‘Tropical Disease’ can be a misleading one. Take this image: in the book… Continue reading