On Wednesday 25th of February the Library will be closed from 11.30am to 12.30pm for a LAS staff meeting. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused.
Photo: Some rights reserved by Bryan Mills…
On Wednesday 25th of February the Library will be closed from 11.30am to 12.30pm for a LAS staff meeting. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused.
Photo: Some rights reserved by Bryan Mills…
In February 1915, three members of School Staff: Robert Leiper, Reginald Cockin and John Gordon Thomson, set off for Egypt to study bilharzia among the troops at the request of the War Office. Leiper, a helminthologist, led the expedition and had experience of studying this disease before the war. In…
By Ian Walden
The past two weeks have been something of a blur. Volunteering with the School’s archives is my first step towards qualifying as an archivist, gaining essential experience before enrolling on an MA course in Archive Management. I knew there would be a learning curve, but I…
While Sir Ronald Ross is mainly known for his work on malaria, he was also interested the treatment of many other diseases. To mark World Cancer Day, which aims to promote a positive and proactive approach towards battling cancer, we have found a press cutting from our Ross collection highlighting…
The Library has purchased access to Northern Light, a database of conference proceedings covering life sciences and medicine.
The database is supplied on the OvidSP platform and can be searched using the same functionality as the other databases available from OvidSP. It can be accessed by anyone with a School…
In January 1912, Sir Ronald Ross was invited to join an official visit to the Russian Duma. This was a reciprocal trip to St. Petersburg and Moscow after members of the Russian Duma had visited the UK Parliament.
The group left Victoria Station on 22nd January 1912, crossing…
Image caption: LSHTM Research Online statistics info-graphic for December 2014.
Last month LSHTM Research Online had over 22,200 full text papers downloaded. The top three downloading countries last month were Germany, US and UK. Below are the top five downloaded papers for December:
Kinoti, G; (1966…
By Kate Veale
As part of my Masters in Archives and Record Management, I was lucky enough to gain a two week placement in the archive of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. My task was to sort, arrange and catalogue the Bradley collection, which contains papers from a…
A Library Book Drop service for Tavistock Place is currently being trialled. During the pilot, members of the School based at Tavistock Place can return Standard Loan and One Week Loan books borrowed from the School Library at the book drop, which is located at the end of the ground…
Happy New Year from the Archives team.
The Archives team always likes to start the year with an optimistic long list of plans and ideas for promoting the archives service but first there needs to be some reflection on 2014. This was a great year for the archives service as…
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