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A hot night in Bengal
One hundred and seventy years ago, on the 1st of August 1840, a court-martial convened in the East India Company military base of Dinapore (now Dānāpur, in India’s Bihār state). Dinapore was a staging post on the route up the… Continue reading
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Courier duties to the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Leonardo di Vinci, Damien Hirst and Marc Quinn are just a few of the famous artists whose works will be displayed at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, as well as other contemporary and historical items from the collections of… Continue reading
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Wellcome Library Insight – Conservation in Action
This week’s free Wellcome Library Insight session, ‘Conservation in Action‘ – on Thursday 15th October, 3pm – offers an opportunity to visit the Library’s Conservation studios. There, you’ll have a chance to meet our Conservation team, see the material they’re… Continue reading
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Frederick Cayley Robinson in ‘Country Life’
An article by Peyton Skipwith in the current issue of Country Life discusses the four large paintings by Frederick Cayley Robinson which are displayed at the entrance to the Wellcome Library. [1] The author calls Cayley Robinson “that rare phenomenon—an… Continue reading
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Closed Week by the numbers
Each year the Library closes for a week to allow staff to work on projects that could be disruptive to our readers during normal open hours. This year our stocktaking activities included a full tidying of all open access collections… Continue reading
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The enemies of books
We are currently reviewing our disaster recovery plans, and what we would do in the event of a major incident affecting the collections in London. This gem of a book from 1888 (The Enemies of Books, by William Blades) reminds… Continue reading
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Mrs Bennett — before and after
These two paintings are part of an archive of Georgian paintings and drawings which appear to come from Leeds. Works from this old Yorkshire collection have been appearing in dribs and drabs, from several different dealers, since 2004. This pair… Continue reading
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Request for proposal: conservation
The Wellcome Library is investigating the feasibility of digitising its Arabic manuscript collection. This collection requires a pre-digitisation conservation survey. The Library is issuing a request for proposal [Word 76KB] for this work. The deadline for responding is 17.00 14… Continue reading