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  • Cataloguing the Himsworth collection

    01/04/2010

    Newly available in the Archives and Manuscripts collection: the papers of Sir Harold Himsworth (1905-1993) The personal papers of Sir Harold Himsworth reflect the great diversity of interests that the scientist had during his lifetime. Included within the collection are… Continue reading

  • Spring comes in 1807

    20/03/2010

    Today, officially, marks the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere: the point from which days are longer than nights, and the long winter is finally behind us. Of course, this is an artificial date: spring is not something… Continue reading

  • Re-‘Revealing the Mind Bender General’

    17/03/2010

    When first broadcast last year, we posted on the BBC Radio 4 documentary, ‘Revealing the Mind Bender General’, which discussed the controversial career of Dr William Sargant, whose papers are held by the Wellcome Library. Radio 4 is repeating the… Continue reading

  • Too big to fail?

    16/03/2010

    Eighteen months ago, the collapse of the Lehman Brothers merchant bank touched off ripples around the world, a disturbance of the financial system whose consequences are still not worked out. In the aftermath of the bank’s collapse (and the run… Continue reading

  • Archives & Manuscripts Cataloguing – February 2010

    We’re introducing a new feature which we hope will become a regular fixture on the Library Blog: a monthly update on the cataloguing of material from our Archives and Manuscripts collections. The aim of these posts being to pass on… Continue reading

  • Smoking with the ‘Family Doctor’

    10/03/2010

    As today is No Smoking Day in the UK, we felt it was a worthwhile opportunity to flag up a few items from the Wellcome Library’s collections relating to tobacco. This in itself is no easy feat, given a simple… Continue reading

  • Frugal Food

    08/02/2010

    ‘At a time when money worries are front-page news,’ say the publishers of Delia Smith’s Frugal Food, ‘Britain’s most trusted cook is once again on hand with a wide range of tasty recipes that are cheap and easy to prepare.’… Continue reading

  • Digitising the archives: the Wellcome Library approach

    02/02/2010

    Like most research libraries and archives repositories, the Wellcome Library is currently planning to digitise quantities of its unique holdings and provide remote access to the digitised content over the Web. Among the many challenges that such plans present, perhaps… Continue reading

  • Rudolf Hess and the psychiatrists

    28/01/2010

      Rudolf Hess’s state of mind from the date of his landing in Scotland in 1941, throughout the years of his imprisonment in England, and during his trial in Nuremberg, has been the subject of speculation by historians, fiction writers… Continue reading

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    Henri Tajfel Papers – Now Available to Consult!

    22/01/2010

    The papers of Henri Tajfel (1919-1982), the Bristol University Professor of Social Psychology and eminent social psychologist, following the completion of the cataloguing process, have today become accessible at the Wellcome Library. An extensive obituary for Tajfel appeared in the… Continue reading