Tag: blogging

Today we are unveiling a new and – we hope you’ll agree – improved Wellcome Library blog. I’d like to tell you about why we’ve made some changes, and highlight some of the new features. An online survey conducted in… Continue reading

Towards the end of last year we ran a survey on the Library website. The aim was to find out more about who is reading our blog, what kind of content you enjoy reading, and how we can give you… Continue reading

We’re planning some exciting new developments to the Wellcome Library blog and we’d like to take your views into account. Whether you are a regular reader, an occasional visitor, or you’ve just discovered us, we’d like to hear from you.… Continue reading

Hello, and welcome to On Giant’s Shoulders #61 the monthly online carnival of history of science blogging, this month hosted at the Wellcome Library’s blog.   What follows is a selection of posts from the last month from the world of… Continue reading

As we’ve marked our previous birthdays, we thought it would be rather amiss not to mark our third birthday with a post summarising our activities over the last 365 days. The Library Blog still follows the path we set down… Continue reading

Back in June 2011 I attended a seminar on the role of biography in the history of psychology and psychiatry. This interesting and informative day raised a lot of questions about the relationship between biography and history. Modern academic historians… Continue reading

In one of Nick Poyntz’s recent articles on ‘Digital History’ for History Today – now collected as a Blog – he explains the concept of Blog Carnivals: “A blog carnival is a collection of posts on a particular theme or… Continue reading

It’s always pleasing to receive praise from your peers, so we were delighted when in the most recent edition of Eureka magazine (produced by The Times), Dr Alice Bell of Imperial College picked the Wellcome Library’s Blog as one of… Continue reading

Given a number of our posts celebrate anniversaries in one form or another, we can’t leave the second birthday of the Wellcome Library Blog unannounced. The origins of this Blog were recounted in a post on our first birthday, but… Continue reading

The Wellcome Library Blog was born a year ago today. On that day, a small group of staff at the Library decided to try to bring our audiences closer to the holdings and work of the Library in an engaging,… Continue reading