Books for orientation
In a previous blog* I extolled the virtues of walking in London. Here are a couple of books to set local walks in an historical public health and tropical medicine context.
Black, Nick. Walking London’s medical history. London : Hodder Arnold, 2012.
Library location: DX…
I approached my manager clutching a collection of books of various shapes and sizes that I hoped I had classified correctly and to her satisfaction. I had only been working as the library’s cataloguer for 2 weeks and was eager to meet her high standards .
“This is a pamphlet…
I was fourteen. My history class were on a visit to London, my first visit to the Capital I can remember with any clarity. Unlike other school trips, which were mostly by coach or the school minibus we travelled by Inter City train from Birmingham New Street, in…
How do you say it?
Borrow (verb) “take and use something belonging to someone else with the intention of returning it”
“May I borrow this book?”
“May I take this book out?”
The emphasis is on removing the item from the custody of the library for the permitted period…
“Mr Bojangles was NOT a tap dancer, he was soft shoe. It is not the same!”
And with this remark, Mr Soft Shoe walked away with a bonus point for his team.
It was pub quiz night at the LSHTM Bar circa 1999 and Andre, Jonathan and Mark were trying…
Mark (the librarian) looked up from a pile of pamphlets on nutrition and water supply and mused “why are these ‘bex-ee’ (BEXY) and ‘sez-ee’ (SEZY)?” As a young twenty something with (mostly) one thing on his mind he was no doubt hoping there would be books bearing the…
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