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The LSHTM Archive recently catalogued and made available to researchers the papers of William Brass (1921 – 1999). William Brass was a demographer, meaning that he undertook statistical research of human populations. Throughout his career he developed indirect methods for … Continue reading
By Becky Darnill As part of my Archives and Records Management course at UCL, I undertook a two-week placement with the archive team at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. I was given the opportunity to create a … Continue reading
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
International Women’s Day is a great chance to remind ourselves of just some of the women who have studied and taught at LSHTM over the years. Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
As part of our commitment to decolonisation at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, we’ve been reviewing the language used in our archival catalogue. We found many examples of outdated language, such as colonial place names. Archival documentation … Continue reading
As we welcome new students to the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, it seems appropriate that we reflect on the students who attended 100 years ago, the class of 1922. The 70th session ran from September to December. 52 … Continue reading
This is the latest in the LSHTM Rare Books Blog, featuring Rhazes (full-name: Muhammad ibn Zakariyā al-Rāzī). Rhazes made notable contributions to many areas of medicine. His manuscripts, carefully preserved down the centuries, were among the first medical books printed in Europe in the 15th century. After translation into Latin Rhazes’s writings became widely disseminated and were to influence the future direction of western medicine. Continue reading
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE (1823-1913) : British naturalist, humanist, geographer, social critic… and anti-vaccination activist(!) Alfred Russel Wallace was one of the founders of evolutionary biology. In 1858 he and Charles Darwin jointly proposed a theory for the process of evolution … Continue reading
HENRY VANDYKE CARTER (1831-1897) : author of On Leprosy and Elephantiasis, and the artist for Gray’s Anatomy. Gray’s Anatomy is a classic medical textbook, used by doctors, anatomists and medical artists. Yet, despite Henry Gray’s (1826/27-1861) scholarly text running to … Continue reading