Author: Ross Macfarlane

Is this the Wellcome Library’s most striking catalogue description? MS.1074: Message stated to have been given at a séance at Bristol on Sunday, November 1st, 1874… For the perspective of the librarian or archivist this immediately raises a cataloguing conundrum  – who do… Continue reading

The second seminar in the 2015–16 History of Pre-Modern Medicine Seminar Series takes place on Tuesday 27th October. Speaker: Dr Gabriella Zuccolin (University of Cambridge) Women’s medicine between script and print, c. 1450–1600 Abstract: By 1600 only a few gynaecological texts written in Latin… Continue reading

The first seminar in the 2015–16 History of Pre-Modern Medicine seminar series takes place on Tuesday 13th October. Speaker: Dr Iona McCleery (University of Leeds) A history of health? Integrating food and drink into the history of medieval medicine Abstract: The… Continue reading

The History of Pre-Modern Medicine seminar series returns this autumn. The 2015–16 series – organised by a group of historians of medicine based at London universities and hosted by the Wellcome Library – will commence with four seminars in the… Continue reading

The last seminar in the 2014-15 History of Pre-Modern Medicine academic seminar series, will take place on Tuesday 3 March. Speaker: Dr Mark Jenner (University of York) Polite and Polluted? Nightmen and the Selling of Sanitary Services in London c.1600-c.1850 Abstract: The Italian… Continue reading

The next seminar in the 2014-15 History of Pre-Modern Medicine academic seminar series, will take place on Tuesday 17 February. Speaker: Dr Patricia Skinner (University of Winchester) Approaching Medieval Disfigurement: a Medical Problem? Abstract: This paper reviews the results of the… Continue reading

We are delighted to announce a new Wellcome Trust Research Bursaries scheme. This scheme is for small and medium-scale research projects based on library or archive collections supported by the Wellcome Trust. Projects must focus either on Wellcome Library holdings or… Continue reading

The next seminar in the 2014-15 History of Pre-Modern Medicine academic seminar series, will take place on Tuesday 3 February. Speaker: Prof Carole Rawcliffe (University of East Anglia) “Poky Pigges and Stynkynge Makerels”: food standards and urban health in later medieval… Continue reading

The History of Pre-Modern Medicine seminar series returns this month. The 2014-15 series – organised by a group of historians of medicine based at London universities and hosted by the Wellcome Library – will conclude with four seminars in the… Continue reading

The fourth seminar in the 2014-15 History of Pre-Modern Medicine academic seminar series, will take place on Tuesday 25th November. Speaker: Dr Irina Metzler (Swansea University) ‘Approaches to intellectual disability in the Middle Ages: Thinking about ‘fools’ and ‘idiots” Abstract: Physical disability… Continue reading