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Photograph of a a page from Food-Grains of India, showing a woodcut illustration of a great millet plant, with some details showing the seeds.

India in the Historical Collection (pt. 1): Food and Diet

By Barbara Roberts · July 27, 2023 · Books · No comments

As we’ve already seen in this blog series, the Historical Collection furnishes a huge variety of pre-twentieth-century material that is of value to anyone interested in the history of science or social studies or LSHTM as an institution. The work done to improve catalogue records for this…

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Book display : Twenty years of the Centre for History in Public Health

By Martyn Post · February 20, 2023 · Archives, Books · No comments

The Library is celebrating twenty years of the Centre for History in Public Health with a book display, highlighting a number of items in the library collection which focus on subjects around health history and public health history.

The Centre was formed in 2003, but has its origins in late…

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Earliest Hospitals and Tropical Medicine

By Tilak Suriya · October 12, 2016 · Uncategorised · No comments

Earliest Hospitals and Tropical Medicine

The history of hospitals extends over 2500 years, shown by early documents and archaeological evidence. In many parts of the world there were healing centres where the nature of the treatment provided varied according to local social and cultural norms.

In early Greek and Roman…

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Changing Face of Keppel Street: Oral History Project

By · August 17, 2016 · Archives · No comments

Changing Face of Keppel Street: Oral History Project

As part of the ‘Changing Face of Keppel Street’ exhibition, currently on display in the Keppel Street foyer, LSHTM staff members were interviewed to capture their recollections of their time at the School.

Edited versions of these interviews are available to view…

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A lifetime of books

By Tilak Suriya · April 28, 2016 · Uncategorised · No comments

[gview file=”http://blogs.lshtm.ac.uk/library/files/2016/04/STC.docx”]A lifetime of books
Reaching one’s seventieth birthday, it is natural to look back over a lifetime of experiences. An interesting feature of which is the link to libraries, library services and books in general. Entering…

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49th Session Oct-Dec 1915

Class of 1915

By · September 29, 2015 · Archives · No comments

For all the new students this year, we thought it would be a great opportunity to meet the students from 100 years ago. In 1915, the School ran three sessions during the year; the 49th session began in October 1915 and ran to December. 9 students attended, made up entirely…

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Wellcome to digitise the Library’s 19th Century literature

By Jane Falconer · June 25, 2014 · Books, Journals · No comments

The School Library has been selected to contribute to the UK Medical Heritage Library digitisation project, joint funded by the Wellcome Library and JISC. The project aims to create high quality digital scans of 19th century medical books and pamphlets which will be available for everyone to use under a…

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How do I search Medline before 1946?

By Jane Falconer · April 3, 2014 · Uncategorised · No comments

I was recently asked this question by a student who was rather surprised by my answer. I took the student up to the Library’s Wellcome Gallery where we looked at print copies of Index Medicus, going back to volume one, printed in 1879.

Index Medicus was published every month…

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