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Book Display: National Stress Awareness Day

Header image from atlascompany on Freepik. National Stress Awareness Day takes place this year on Wednesday 1st November 2023. Founded by the International Stress Management Association, it aims to raise awareness of workplace stress and ways to combat it. The … Continue reading

New UKRI Open Access policy – what you need to know, how to comply and how we can help

Coming soon: Monographs join articles in UKRI policy update. Cries of, “Make us open access too!” can be heard from long-form outputs across the land. A blogpost by Alice Fodor. Continue reading

Book Display: World Humanitarian Day

19th August 2023 is World Humanitarian Day, a yearly day of observance established by the UN to recognise the contributions of humanitarian workers. Their theme this year is “the importance, effectiveness and positive impact of humanitarian work.” In recognition of … Continue reading

India’s thirty years of investing in research for health

Dr Eti Rajwar1 and Prof Sandy Oliver2 1Public Health Evidence South Asia, Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India 2EPPI Centre, Social Research Institute, University College London, UK                   August 2023   “Change is inevitable, growth … Continue reading

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Cyril Cuthbert Barnard: a new poster display in the Library

Visit the Library’s Barnard Room to find out more about the first professional librarian at LSHTM – Cyril Cuthbert Barnard (1894-1959). If you’ve ever taken a book out of the Library, chances are you will have noticed the shelf mark … Continue reading

Johann Gottfried Bremser’s early 19th century medical books on parasitic worms with hand-coloured plates. LSHTM Rare Books Blog Series No. 7. August 2023

The Austrian physician Johann Gottfried Bremser (1767-1827) was born in Wertheim am Main in present-day Germany. He studied medicine in Jena and Vienna where he obtained a licence to practice medicine in 1797. Bremser made a special study of parasitic … Continue reading

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