World Population Day is all about raising awareness of controlling the population and serves to highlight the growing problems that come with a growing global population. World Population Day was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989. It was inspired by the public interest…
I can’t believe that it has been 20 years since I started working at the School! To commemorate this anniversary, this seems a perfect time to reflect on my time at the School, my work as an Archivist and the development of the service. I have been looking through…
Due to industrial action affecting Network Rail services and Transport for London, the Library at Keppel Street will be closed all day on Tuesday 21 June. You will still be able to get in touch with our Library, Archive and Open Research Services team remotely via the…
Refugee Week takes place every year across the world in the week around World Refugee Day on the 20th June. In the UK, Refugee Week is a celebration of the contribution of refugees to the UK, and encourages a better understanding between communities. Activities take place which help raise awareness…
The theme of this year’s World Environment Day is “Only One Earth”. The host nation is Sweden.
“In the Universe there are billions of galaxies. In our galaxy are billions of planets. But there is only one Planet Earth”
The stuff of both science and science fiction perhaps, but…
Readers now have access to the following JSTOR archive collections:
Arts & Sciences IArts & Sciences IIArts & Sciences VIArts & Sciences VIIArts & Sciences XLife Sciences
These collections provide readers with full-text articles from nearly 900 journal titles. The Life Sciences collection is discipline-specific and focuses on…
The Library will be open on both bank holidays in June, operating slightly reduced hours. Our reading rooms will be available for study 11am-8pm on both Thursday 2 June and Friday 3 June and we’ll be around to answer your questions online too. Get in touch at library…
By Alia Carter, UCL Placement Student
As part of my MA Archives and Records Management course at UCL I have been fortunate enough to spend two weeks at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. I was particularly interested in working with the School as I have an interest…
World Hunger Day was founded by the Hunger Project in 2011 to call attention to the global food crisis. On May 28th each year the Hunger Project invites us as global citizens to highlight sustainable solutions to world hunger and declare our own role in making a hunger-free planet…
Figure 1: Colourful organisms in a sample of the water supplied by the Southwark & Vauxhall Company to St. Thomas’s Hospital in 1854 as seen under the microscope (Hassall 1855a : page 248, Plate 19).
This illustration of a microcosm of the natural world in London’s water in…
