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Here’s one we made earlier…
As the latest issue of the Wellcome Trust’s Big Picture tackles the themes of Food and Diet, we thought we would set a culinary challenge for chef Zack Mila. Faced with the Library’s collection of 17th recipe manuscripts – and… Continue reading
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Archives and Manuscripts cataloguing, March 2011
Last month’s archive cataloguing saw the release of three complete archive collections, as well as various manuscripts and supplementary items. The highlights are described below. John Wilson Boag (1911-2007), radiation physicist and peace campaigner: papers of the influential radiation physicist… Continue reading
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The Sausage follows the Flag
Draw up a list of iconic British foods: menu items that radiate comfort and Britishness to the native and the outsider alike. The chances are that sausages will be somewhere on that list – not, perhaps, as charged with emotional… Continue reading
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Montezuma’s gift
How many words of Nahuatl do you know – the language of the Aztecs? And how many words of this complex, agglutinative language (spoken in various modern forms by about 1.5 million people across Central America today) do you think… Continue reading
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Say cheese!
One of those quotations that comes up again and again is General de Gaulle’s complaint about the impossibility of uniting France: “How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?” For the serious… Continue reading
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Institute of Historical Research Seminar
Tomorrow evening (Tuesday 16th March), as part of the Spring Term ‘Archives and Society’ Seminars at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), Senate House, London; the Wellcome Library’s Helen Wakely (Archivist) and Julianne Simpson (Rare Books Librarian), will be giving… Continue reading
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The crust of it!
This week is National Pie Week in Great Britain, celebrating the long history of pies and pasties in British cookery. Although the haggis and the Roast Beef of Old England occur more in song and story, food wrapped in pastry… Continue reading
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The best things in life
What would you consider to be the most valuable objects in your home? Your laptop? Photo albums? Favourite clothes? Probably not the contents of your bathroom cabinet. But for Elizabeth Freke, living in Norfolk at the turn of the 17th… Continue reading
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Search our recipes by title
We announced in April that the Library’s 17th century recipe books have been digitised in their entirety and mounted online via the Wellcome Library Archive and Manuscript Catalogue. Now we are in the process of making the recipe title transcriptions… Continue reading