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Find your way back in time
The Wellcome Library has collected web based material for inclusion in the UK Web Archive since its beginning in 2005. Three new search features on the UK Web Archive site make it easier to go back and see how websites… Continue reading
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Spilsbury notecards to be digitised
In the New Year, the Wellcome Library’s recently acquired collection of notecards from the archive of Sir Bernard Spilsbury will be available online. The digital images will be accessible via the Archives and Manuscripts catalogue records as PDFs. Images… Continue reading
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Researching Lives: Medicine, science and archives
The Wellcome Library and the British Records Association are organising a one day conference on the wealth of resources available in medical and scientific archives to build up pictures of individual lives. Titled Researching Lives: Medicine, science and archives, the… Continue reading
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Nobel Prize Winners in the Wellcome Library
The award of the Nobel Prizes for 2009 has recently been in the news. Collections in Archives and Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library include the catalogued and available material of over a dozen Nobel Laureates from 1902 onwards, varying from… Continue reading
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Item of the Month, September 2009: George Washington’s order for supplies
Laudanum, Sago and Glue for the Father of his Country Two hundred and fifty years ago, on September 20th 1759, a young member of the landed gentry in Virginia sent an order for supplies to London. The document, now held… Continue reading
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A short post about long service
This summer marked the 35th anniversary of William Schupbach, Curator, Paintings, Prints and Drawings, starting work with what was then the Wellcome Institute. Since then, William and colleagues have undertaken a mammoth cataloguing task, to allow access to the illustrative… Continue reading
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Patients Association Archive Available in the Wellcome Library
Readers may have observed recent media publicity following publication of the Patients Association’s report ‘Patients… not numbers, People… not statistics’ in August 2009. In this report the healthcare charity focused on poor standards of nursing and domiciliary care for the… Continue reading
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The Battle of the Haggis
Recent historical work casts doubt on the provenance of Scotland’s national dish, as reported on the BBC website on Monday 3rd August. Historian Catherine Brown has located a reference to haggis in Gervase Markham’s 1615 work The English Hus-Wife, which… Continue reading
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Death of a novelist
Eighty-five years ago today, on August 3rd 1924, the novelist Joseph Conrad died of a heart attack at his home in Kent. Conrad’s narratives are slippery constructions, with lavish use of fractured timescales, unreliable narrators and indirect speech. Their indirection… Continue reading
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Breaking the Mould
As part of their War Beneath the Skin season, BBC4 last night broadcast Breaking the Mould: The Story of Penicillin. Details: Whilst it is widely recognised that Alexander Fleming was the man who discovered penicillin, the truth… Continue reading