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Christmas Recipe from the Archives

Last month the Archives team held the second Great War Bake Off, where we showcased the Archives’ wartime recipes from the Nutrition Collection. We were pleased to see so many staff and students take part, and to taste their creations, so to end the year the Archives service have found…

Unique film of an expedition to East Africa, 1936

In 1936, Major HS Leeson, an entomologist working at the School, set off on an expedition to study malarial mosquitoes in East Africa. He was accompanied by his assistant, John David Gillett, who made an extraordinary film of the whole expedition, from their departure from Croyden Airport, their flight to…

Top 5 downloaded papers from LSHTM Research Online – October 2015

                     Image caption: Metric Mania by Batega. License: CC-BY

 

Last month LSHTM Research Online had over 160, 700 full text papers downloaded with the top three downloading countries being the UK, Germany and US. This is a significant increase on downloads from this time last year. Over the last…

Death of Sir Ronald Ross – 16th September 1932

By Aisling O’Malley

Sir Ronald Ross was born in India in 1857, he was educated in Englandand entered the Indian Medical Service in 1881. In 1892 he began his study of malaria and in 1895 began corresponding with Sir Patrick Manson, then physician to the Seamen’s Hospital Society…

Library Opening Hours 23 June 2015

The library will be closing at 4pm on Tuesday 23rd June 2015 for an Alumni event.

The Library will reopen as usual from 8.30am on Wednesday 24th June 2015…

LAS Planning Day 16th June 2015

The Library will be closed on Tuesday 16th June to enable Library & Archives Service staff to attend the annual LAS Planning Day. Access to e-resources and online guidance will be available as usual via the LAS web pages at http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/index.html.

The…

Library Opening Hours 12th May 2015

On Tuesday 12th May the Library will be closed between 3pm and 4.30pm for an LAS staff meeting. This will be the last planned temporary closure until after exams. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused.

We are conscious that the Library has closed for short periods to…