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Bookplate of Skene Library

Skene Library– finding the provenance

By Andre Burbidge · May 20, 2024 · Collections, Historical Collection, Uncategorised · No comments

One of our current projects in the Collections Team is going through our historical collections and enhancing the catalogue records so that they conform to modern standards for rare books. One aspect of this process are the fields on the records relating to the provenance of the book in question…

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Historical Collection: The Victorian meat market, tainted meat, and public health crisis—a look at W. Wylde’s The Inspection of Meat. 

By Martyn Post · May 17, 2024 · Archives, Books, Collections, Historical Collection, Uncategorised · No comments

This is a blog post about the book “The Inspection of Meat: A Guide and Instruction Book to Officers Supervising Contract-Meat and to All Sanitary Inspectors Embodying the Teaching Imparted to the Army Service Corps.” By W. Wylde. This item is part of the London School of Hygiene and…

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