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…
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…
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…
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…
I do enjoy baking at this time of year (the ginger biscuits I baked for the Library & Archives team disappeared pretty quickly) so I might take my inspiration from some of the Christmas recipes in our Nutrition collection:
This leaflet, published in December 1945, is from a series…
As the HIV/AIDS archive cataloguing project enters it’s final month, I thought I should reflect on a few of the records that have caught my attention over the past 17 months. This is not a definitive list and regret that I do not have space to fully convey…
The Archives Service is coming to the end of the project to catalogue, preserve and make accessible the HIV/AIDS collections held at the School. This project is funded by the Wellcome Trust through their Research Resources in Medical History programme. The original project was to catalogue six collections which…
To mark World AIDS Day, the Archives team are selecting their favourite items which are currently on show in the HIV/AIDS: Controlling and eradicating an epidemic exhibition, more information at: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/events/2014/10/hivaids-controlling-and-eradicating-a-modern-epidemic
I have chosen…
By Louise Woof
I have been fortunate enough to be able to spend two weeks at the archive, learning the role of an archivist and undertaking various projects from listing AIDS research papers to setting up displays for the Great War Bake Off. Here is a brief glimpse of a…
Could you bake an Eggless Fruit Cake, a Spiced Apple Sauce Cake, 1916 Gingerbread Sponge or even a First World War Trench Cake?
Now is your chance to show off your baking skills in LSHTM Archive’s Great War Bake-Off. As part of Explore Your Archive week, which runs…
