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‘Politeness and Pogonotomy: shaving and masculinity in Georgian Britain’
The next seminar in the History of Pre-Modern Medicine academic seminar series, will take place on Tuesday 5th February. Details: Alun Withey (University of Exeter) ‘Politeness and Pogonotomy: shaving and masculinity in Georgian Britain’ Abstract: By the mid eighteenth century,… Continue reading
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‘Documenting science: preserving the legacy of the Human Genome Project’
Human Genome Project Officer Jenny Shaw will be discussing her work at the Wellcome Library at an Archives for London seminar on 7th February. Details: The Human Genome Archive Project (HGAP) aims to preserve the archival legacy of one of the most… Continue reading
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‘Fertility Troubles and Domestic Medical Knowledge’
The next seminar in the History of Pre-Modern Medicine academic seminar series, will take place on Tuesday 22nd January. Details: Lisa Smith (University of Saskatchewan) Fertility Troubles and Domestic Medical Knowledge in Eighteenth Century England and France Abstract: The ability… Continue reading
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Science today, history tomorrow
At the end of 2012, the science journal Nature recorded a podcast with science writer Georgina Ferry and our Human Genome Project (HGP) archivist Jenny Shaw about the importance of preserving the informal records of modern science. The podcast is now… Continue reading
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John Wilkins and a Universal Language
As librarians and archivists, we have an interest in classification. We organize the resources we have – we try to understand what they are and what they’re about, to group them together in structured collections and place them on our… Continue reading
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An operatic elixir…
On Saturday evening, BBC Radio 3 broadcast Donizetti’s comic opera L’elisir d’amore live from the Royal Opera House. The plot of the opera revolves around the love potions of the quack doctor Dulcamara and the history of quackery was explored during… Continue reading
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‘Plague and ‘Syphilis’ in Early Modern Europe: the Rise of Cultural Toxins’
The next seminar in the History of Pre-Modern Medicine academic seminar series, will take place on Tuesday 4th December. Details: Sam Cohn (University of Glasgow) Plague and ‘Syphilis’ in Early Modern Europe: the Rise of Cultural Toxins The seminar will… Continue reading
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From practice to prosopography
This month the Wellcome Library hosted the first in a new series of academic seminars on the history of pre-modern medicine. The series has been organised by a group of historians of medicine based at London universities and will focus… Continue reading
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Item of the Month, November 2012: Christ with Saint Andrew and Saint Longinus
Today is the feast day of Saint Andrew, patron saint of Scotland. However, the image we have chosen as our item of the month, whilst depicting Saint Andrew, does not feature the object commonly associated with him – the X-shaped… Continue reading
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History of Pre-Modern Medicine Seminar Series 2012-13
A new academic seminar series organised by a group of historians of medicine based at London universities and hosted by the Wellcome Library will start to meet in 2012-13. The series will be focused on pre-modern medicine, which we take… Continue reading