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‘Nutrition and History in the Twentieth Century’
A one day conference at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), will be held next month on 15th September. The conference – ‘Nutrition and History in the Twentieth Century’ – is jointly organised by the Centre for… Continue reading
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Archives and Manuscripts cataloguing – July 2010
Our archive cataloguing during July was chiefly dominated by on-going projects rather than the release of new records to the database: although several of those projects will appear very shortly, some as early as August’s round-up. One very small collection… Continue reading
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Blue Plaque for Marie Stopes
Today an English Heritage Blue Plaque was unveiled in Cintra Park, Upper Norwood, on the house in which the eminent palaeobotanist, sex educator and campaigner for birth control, Marie Stopes (1880-1958), spent her childhood years. (Some of us might feel… Continue reading
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Item of the month, July 2010: The name of the rose
Six years ago today, Francis Crick died of colon cancer in San Diego at the age of 88. Most famous for his 1953 discovery (with James Watson) of the structure of DNA, Crick was also a keen rose cultivator, filling… Continue reading
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The ‘Captain of all these men of death‘ is back – if he was ever away
Tuberculosis remains a global killer, but it is often supposed to be a disease of only historical interest within the UK in the present. However, it was recently reported, Experts urge TB vaccine for all London children, that the incidence… Continue reading
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Pole to Pole with the Wellcome Library
The latest issue of Wellcome News – the Wellcome Trust’s quarterly magazine rounding up its latest activities – contains an article based on material from the Wellcome Library, exploring the involvement of Henry Wellcome’s pharmaceutical company with the last Antarctic… Continue reading
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A Weekend with Wells
The weekend 9th to 11th July saw a fascinating conference celebrating the 50th anniversary of the H. G. Wells Society, ‘H. G. Wells: From Kent to Cosmopolis’, held in the appropriate setting of the Darwin College Conference Suite at the… Continue reading
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Clues in the Wellcome Library
We started 2010 with a post on material from our collections which had been opened under the Data Protection Act, on the case of Charles H.M. Kerr: from our records, patient of Manor House Asylum in Chiswick, but identified –… Continue reading
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NHS founder dies
Fifty years ago today, Aneurin Bevan MP died of cancer at the age of 62. His legacy, of course, is very much alive: as the UK enters a round of what we are warned will be ferocious cuts in government… Continue reading
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Archives and Manuscripts cataloguing – June 2010
We mentioned in the last round up of new archives and manuscripts cataloguing that there is considerable overlap between May’s work and June’s: data released to the public in early June included a large amount of material created in May.… Continue reading