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…

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Dr H McCormick Hanschell

In June 1915, the minutes of the London School of Tropical Medicine show that Dr H McCormick Hanschell was called up for service in the Navy and then embarked on a very interesting mission in East Africa.
Hanschell was born in Barbados and received his primary education in Bridgetown. He…

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Journals – have your say!

Want to let the Library know which journals are relevant to your needs?  Now is your chance!  From Monday 1st June to Friday 31st July you can participate by filling in a short questionnaire specific to your Faculty:

EPH: https://lshtm.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/las-eph-2015

ITD: https://lshtm…

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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…

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Library Opening Hours Thursday 7th May

The Library will be closed between 3.30pm and 4.30pm on Thursday 7th May to allow all LAS staff to attend a meeting. Apologies for any inconvenience…

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Wellcome Trust Research Bursaries for archive researchers

The Wellcome Trust recently announced a new scheme for small and medium-scale research projects based on archive collections that have received previous Research Resources funding. This is great news for the LSHTM archives as we have previously received four of these grants which have helped us to increase access…

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Sir Ronald Ross and the Gallipoli Campaign

Researched and written by Ian Walden, Archive volunteer.

As we commemorate the centenary of the Gallipoli campaign, the School’s archives remind us that in warfare, the doctor’s struggle to understand and combat disease is as significant as the general’s strategy and the soldier’s courage.

The campaign…

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Research data, publishing & the Wellcome Trust

Researchers at the School who are in receipt of funding from the Wellcome Trust and have had an open access fee paid have a number of requirements when publishing.

They should license the research papers using the Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC-BY) so they may be freely copied and…

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Anniversary of Sir Patrick Manson: 3 Oct 1844 – 9 April 1922

Sir Patrick Manson, founder of the London School of Tropical Medicine,  died 93 years ago today.

Manson, known as the father of modern tropical medicine, studied medicine at Aberdeen University, passing M.B. and C.M. in 1865.

In 1866 he became a  medical officer in Formosa (Taiwan) for the…

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Happy Easter from the Archives

This leaflet is from a series of seasonal recipes published by the Ministry of Food during the period of food rationing in Britain during and following the Second World War.

This and many other Ministry of Food leaflets are available to view in the LSHTM Archives as part of the…

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