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Increased RCUK block grant for 2015/2016

Research Councils UK (RCUK) has recently announced the amounts that it will be paying to institutions in the block grant to support the implementation of its open access policy. Since April 2013 the grant to universities and eligible research organisations has been used to cover the cost of article processing…

Devotion to the cause: addresses by the Director (1924)

 

The Library serial collection holds some fascinating publications of the School including journals, bulletins, collected papers, reports and memoir series (dating from between 1899-1988).  These historical publications are soon to join the Library’s other serials (published pre-2010) that are stored in the University of London Library…

Ernest Edwards, photographer

“Photographs of eminent medical men, of all countries”, was published by John Churchill in London, 1867-68 in 2 volumes. It contains the portraits of 48 leading Victorian doctors each accompanied with a biography. The portraits were the work of photographer Ernest Edwards (1837-1903) who had a studio in…

Archives Alive….Peter Mine

 

One of the many things that I love about my job as an Archivist is the unexpected activities that you become involved in. Working with two actors, Rebecca Tremain and Penny Dimond, has been a great pleasure and a very interesting experience in bringing our archive collections to life…