Eye Health UK is launching National Eye Health Week (#VisionMatters), from 22-28 September 2025. You can find more about this initiative HERE. This public health campaign is designed to raise awareness of the importance of good eye care, and organisers aim to “build strong community networks” to…
A fundamental feature of science is reproducibility and having study methods and data openly available enables researchers to replicate and verify their results. It is not just making methodologies fully open, they need to be fully documented and placed in a location that is accessible.
Open methodologies are concerned…
With the new Academic Year nearly upon us, we have put together a book display to help those who are coming to the area for the first time to study or work. The display has two themes ; one is concerned with the history of the School and the surrounding area…
On 15 August 1945, Victory over Japan (VJ) Day marked the end of the Second World War in Asia. While celebrations had already taken place in Britain and Europe after VE Day in May, the war was far from over for those still living under Japanese occupation.
Among them were…
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine’s Electron Microscopy Department began as part of the Entomology Department under the leadership of Richard Bird in 1959. It closed in 2012, leaving behind many thousands of photographic prints, negatives and ‘blocks’: tiny samples encapsulated in resin, each with a unique…
‘She sells seashells on the sea shore’
This nineteenth century tongue twister was inspired by the popularity of seaside holidays, as shown in these engravings:
Seaside scene
Seaside activities
Sea bathing had long been extolled for its health-giving benefits, but it was really only accessible to the upper classes…
The image depicts a syringe against a background of the globe of the earth.
August is National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM). NIAM raises the awareness about why vaccines are important for people of all ages and how they can help prevent serious, sometimes deadly, diseases and illnesses. Immunisation is one…
Measles has been in the news of late, such as the death of a child in Liverpool who contracted the virus: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3enyd9z4yyo, and the reports in the most recent Chariot (2025, no. 28) with reference to the LSHTM Viral podcast Podcasts | Research…
Many of you will be preparing to write your thesis. There are many books in the library advising how to write a literature review as well as books on study skills including how to manage your time effectively. We have put some of these on display in the Library…
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in Keppel Street, Bloomsbury was opened in 1929. The balconies on the first floor of the building, outside the Library, are decorated with a frieze of sculptures of ten animals – seven insects, a tick, a snake and a rat – responsible…
