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Wellcome Library Blog
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Official blog of the Wellcome Library - collections of books, manuscripts, archives, films and pictures on the history of medicine from the earliest times to the present day.
- Added on: Jan 23rd, 2009
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: Christy Henshaw
- Listed in: Science Society
- Tags: medicine London museum history research wellcome trust
Recent Posts
Rock \'n\' Roll Suicide?
“Don’t wanna stay alive when you’re 25” wrote the young David Bowie (now 62). The history of popular music is littered with tales of self-destruction - Del Shannon, Johnny Thunders, Joe Meek, Keith Moon and even Sister Luc-Gabrielle (the Sing...
New Product Trials
The Library has set up trials for the following products:American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collections"The AAS Historical Periodicals Collection: 1691-1820 presents 550 titles dating from 1693 through 1820. The collection repr...
Darwin\'s Inheritance
Tomorrow's Wellcome Library Insight session, is a joint event held with Wellcome Collection.Darwin's Inheritance will draw on a range of objects, archives and illustrative materials, in order to contextualise the life and work of Charles Darwin and i...
Norman Levitt: science warrior
Norman Levitt, Professor of Mathematics at Rutgers University died on 24th October 2009. He was probably best known for championing the role of science in society. With fellow scientist Paul Gross, he wrote Higher Superstition, in which he challenged...
Find your way back in time
The Wellcome Library has collected web based material for inclusion in the UK Web Archive since its beginning in 2005. Three new search features on the UK Web Archive site make it easier to go back and see how websites looked in the past or to use th...
Wellcome Library Workshop
This week’s free Wellcome Library workshop is: Wellcome Images Discover how to search the from Wellcome Images collection: a database of 160,000 pictures online, covering the history of medicine and the history of human culture from the earliest pe...
