Events and Visits
Find out about the talks, seminars and workshops that we’ve got coming up, and read about recent tours and courses at the Library. And we’ll share our accounts of the most interesting conferences and events we’ve been to.
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Focusing on history in Hong Kong
A revelation awaits visitors to the Hong Kong Maritime Museum: the current exhibition Through the Lens of John Thomson: Hong Kong and Coastal China (1868-1872). The exhibition shows large photographic prints of Hong Kong and mainland China in 1868-1872, made… Continue reading
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World AIDS Day talk: global visions in poster art
World AIDS Day (1 December) is a good opportunity to revisit the much used and, it seems, well known, collection of AIDS posters in the Wellcome Library, which is now freely available online (search the Library catalogues for access): The collection,… Continue reading
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A literary history of medicine: the best accounts of the classes of physicians
The next seminar in the 2013-14 History of Pre-Modern Medicine academic seminar series, will take place on Tuesday 19th November. Details: Emilie Savage-Smith (Oxford) A Literary History of Medicine: The Best Accounts of the Classes of Physicians by Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (d.… Continue reading
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More Digitisation Open Days at the Wellcome Library
Would you like to learn more about digitisation at the Wellcome Library? The Wellcome Library presents another round of Digitisation Open Days for anyone who may be about to embark on a digitisation project, is already engaged in one, or… Continue reading
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‘Nature’s Office and Work: Defeating Disease in Early Modern England, 1580-1720’
The next seminar in the 2013-14 History of Pre-Modern Medicine academic seminar series, will take place on Tuesday 5th November. Details: Hannah Newton (Cambridge) “Nature’s Office and Work”: Defeating Disease in Early Modern England, 1580-1720 Abstract: The ‘golden saying’ in early modern… Continue reading
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Between the East and the West…
The next seminar in the 2013-14 History of Pre-Modern Medicine academic seminar series, will take place on Tuesday 29th October. Details: François-Olivier Touati (Université François-Rabelais, Tours) ‘Between the East and the West: transmission of diseases, connection of medical responses during the Middle… Continue reading
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‘The Galenist as Mechanist: Claude Perrault and the Natural History of Animals’
The first seminar in the 2013-14 History of Pre-Modern Medicine academic seminar series, will take place on Tuesday 15th October. Details: Anita Guerrini (Oregon State) ‘The Galenist as Mechanist: Claude Perrault and the Natural History of Animals’ Abstract: Claude Perrault (1613-1688)… Continue reading
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History of Pre-Modern Medicine Seminar Series, Autumn 2013
Following a successful first year, the History of Pre-Modern seminar series returns this autumn. The 2013-14 series – organised by a group of historians of medicine based at London universities and hosted by the Wellcome Library – will commence with four… Continue reading
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Tuberculosis: A Short History – a new exhibition
Tuberculosis (TB) has long been regarded as a major danger to public health, and is now widely seen as a disease that is not only endemic across the world, but also one that has developed new strains that threaten to… Continue reading
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‘Everard Home: Hero or Villain?’
Dr Simon Chaplin, Head of the Wellcome Library, will be giving a lecture about the surgeon Everard Home at the Hunterian Museum in London on Tuesday 14th May at 13.00. “Who was the real Everard Home (1756-1832)? Was he a brilliant… Continue reading