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Monday, October 8, 2012

An austere realm of great beauty

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Being an archivist is sometimes a strange profession, spanning a range of worlds. Your training can include instruction in Tudor handwritin...
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Europ.In – Would your grandmother use it?

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Europ.In is a lovely web application that gives a Pinterest-like view of some of the Wellcome Library's more visually interesting ma...

Library Insights: New for October

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Two new Insight talks, designed to highlight the breadth of the Library's collections, are coming up in October: 'Ancient Medic...
Thursday, September 27, 2012

R.I.P. Chief Inspector Dreyfus

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The BBC reports the death earlier today of the actor Herbert Lom , who played the police chief in the Pink Panther films. His many other ro...
Monday, September 24, 2012

X-rays by Sir Gervas Powell Glyn, Bt. Wellcome Library Item of the Month.

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Wellcome Library no. 70i Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (left) discovered X-rays through a combination of accident and experiment in December 18...
Friday, September 21, 2012

Woman's Hour

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This week, Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4 featured a discussion between Dr Lesley Hall, Senior Archivist, Wellcome Library and author Li...

Dr Elma Brenner on Sick City Talks

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Sick City Talks are a new series of podcasts on the history, literature, art and science of medicine in London, devised by Wellcome Trus...
Thursday, September 13, 2012

Graphic intimations of mortality

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The memento mori pictures in the Wellcome Library range from complex and learned allegories to popular works which encourage their owners t...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

This pendant world

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Is there life on other planets, and will we ever discover another world with a biodiversity as rich as that found on Earth? NASA’s Curi...
Thursday, September 6, 2012

This weekend: The Congress for Curious Peoples - London edition!

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This Saturday, September 8th, graphic designer, photographer and blogger extraordinaire Joanna Ebenstein opens her legendary "Congress ...
Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Exploring Wellcome Collection: Medicine, Society and the Making of Modern Europe to 1800

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What did it mean to be ill in the past?  How was illness understood and how were patients treated?  Drawing on the rich holdings both in t...
Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Library Insights: Reading and the senses

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Experience some of our books through the senses of touch and smell this Thursday 6th September, 3-4pm  as Jo Maddocks offers her popular ...
Monday, September 3, 2012

Guest Post: Houseleeks and Garden Worms

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Dr Katherine Foxhall is a Wellcome Trust Fellow based at King’s College London. She is currently writing a social history of migraine, lo...
Friday, August 31, 2012

Item of the Month, August 2012: British rabies posters from the 1970s

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For many in this country, the end of August traditionally marks the end of the summer holidays, as children return to school and parents ret...
Thursday, August 30, 2012

The Silent Traveller in the Wellcome Archives

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A current exhibition at the V&A Museum in London, The Silent Traveller in Britain, 1933-1955 , explores the work of the Chinese artist...
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