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Library Inductions for new students 2023/24 – Welcome to LSHTM!

A very warm welcome to all those starting this week! It was great to meet so many of you at the Welcome Fair today 🙌 To help you get started using our resources and services, we hope you can attend … Continue reading

Johann Gottfried Bremser’s early 19th century medical books on parasitic worms with hand-coloured plates. LSHTM Rare Books Blog Series No. 7. August 2023

The Austrian physician Johann Gottfried Bremser (1767-1827) was born in Wertheim am Main in present-day Germany. He studied medicine in Jena and Vienna where he obtained a licence to practice medicine in 1797. Bremser made a special study of parasitic … Continue reading

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Chat with us!

If you’ve used our website or searched our resources lately, you may well have spotted this shiny new icon: This is there as we’re currently trialling an instant webchat service, provided by LibraryH3lp. The service has been running for about … Continue reading

Octavia Hill and the Royal Commission on the Poor Law and the Unemployed (1905-09).  LSHTM Rare Books Blog Series No. 6. January 2023

The Royal Commission on the Poor Law and the Unemployed was set up in 1905 to review the system of poor relief provision and consider alternative ways to tackle unemployment. Twenty people were appointed to the Commission including Octavia Hill … Continue reading

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Using other libraries over the festive period

Are you a London-based library user needing somewhere to study during the Christmas & New Year period? Read on… The LSHTM Library at Keppel Street will be closed for the festive period, shutting at 8.30pm this Wednesday 22 December and … Continue reading

Welcoming all new students to LSHTM

A very warm welcome to all those starting this week! We’ll be at the Marketplace tomorrow (… with chocolates) so hopefully see lots of you there. To help you get started using our resources and services, please attend one of … Continue reading

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Sir Humphry Davy : illustrious former owner of a book on the plague now in LSHTM Library. LSHTM Rare Books Blog series No. 5. August 2022.

Like most books in the Library’s Special Collection our copy of A Treatise on the Plague by A.B. Faulkner, published in 1820, was acquired secondhand. This was probably purchased from an antiquarian bookseller by our first librarian, Cyril Barnard, who … Continue reading

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Library opening updates – June / July 2022

Due to industrial action affecting Network Rail services and Transport for London, the Library at Keppel Street will be closed all day on Tuesday 21 June. You will still be able to get in touch with our Library, Archive and Open Research Services … Continue reading

June bank holiday opening

The Library will be open on both bank holidays in June, operating slightly reduced hours. Our reading rooms will be available for study 11am-8pm on both Thursday 2 June and Friday 3 June and we’ll be around to answer your … Continue reading

Under the lens : London’s water examined in the 1853-4 cholera pandemic. LSHTM Rare Books Blog series No. 4. May 2022.

This illustration of a microcosm of the natural world in London’s water in 1854 was published in a book in the School’s Library, Report of the Medical Council … in relation to the cholera-epidemic of 1854 (General Board of Health. … Continue reading