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  • Kitchen sink dramas

    17/02/2009

    Is it just me, or does recipe-swapping seem to be spreading across the media like a benign virus? Every weekend paper worth its salt has a recipe-exchange corner nowadays, while online you’re spoilt for choice, from the reassuring videos on… Continue reading

  • A design for life?

    11/02/2009

    How would you sum up the significance of DNA in a single sentence? When challenged by an Essex biology teacher in 1989, the DNA pioneer Francis Crick didn’t hesitate: As you may have noticed, 2009 is a major anniversary for… Continue reading

  • The Patterson Challenge – Completed!

    We recently brought you news on ‘The Patterson Challenge’ – a proposed 20 mile walk across London, which would follow in the footsteps of James Patterson, a Victorian tourist, who had recorded his perambulations in a diary now in the… Continue reading

  • The last Frost Fair

    05/02/2009

    As London reels under its worst “snow event” for 18 years, we’re bombarded with archive footage of previous worst winters: 1947 and 1962/3 in particular. The most marvellous of London’s winter events, however, last happened nearly 200 years ago: the… Continue reading

  • Medical women’s obituaries

    12/01/2009

    A useful new biographical resource has been added to the catalogue of the archives of the Medical Women’s Federation (SA/MWF). Thanks to the painstaking work of Emma Milliken, an index to the obituaries of women doctors which appeared in the… Continue reading

  • Spilsbury Case Reports in The Times

    06/01/2009

    Our recently catalogued case reports of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, received further promotion through a recent article in The Times. Ben Macintyre writes: “The archive offers a unique insight into the British way of death in an earlier age, but it… Continue reading

  • New Look to the UK Web Archive

    15/12/2008

    The UK Web Archive has a new public interface. See http://www.ukwebarchive.org.uk/ The Wellcome Library, along with the JISC, was instrumental in starting web archiving in the UK in 2005. Snapshots of each site are taken at suitable intervals. The archive… Continue reading

  • Sir Bernard Spilsbury case reports now available

    17/11/2008

    Archives and Manuscripts, Wellcome Library, are delighted to announce that the Sir Bernard Spilsbury material purchased at Sothebys earlier this year has now been catalogued and is available to researchers subject to the usual conditions of access to archival and… Continue reading

  • Espionage and forgery in the Wellcome Library

    03/11/2008

    The papers of the Wellcome Foundation Archive – which cover the development of Henry Wellcome’s pharmaceutical business – are not the place you would expect to find a tale of international espionage befitting the pages of a John Buchan novel.… Continue reading

  • Sir John McMichael, FRCP, FRCPE, FRS (1904-1993)

    The personal papers of Sir John McMichael are now available to researchers at the Wellcome Library. To find out more about this eminent cardiologist, Wellcome Trustee and director of the British Postgraduate Medical Federation, please see the entry in the… Continue reading