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Musings on maps

By Andre Burbidge · August 24, 2020 · Uncategorised · No comments

I’ve always been fascinated by maps of all kinds. Long before I first visited London, I opened a pocket diary belonging to my parents and found a map of the London Underground on the back pages, the classic Pick design which sacrifices geographical accuracy for diagrammatic clarity. Where was…

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Wellcome Trust Research Bursaries for archive researchers

By Victoria Cranna · April 27, 2015 · Archives · No comments

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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