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Taking the lead on our institutional history: Archives and ‘The Town that Taught Itself’
Archives Hub feature for June 2025 2025 marks 200 years of technical and professional education in Huddersfield, celebrating the establishment of Huddersfield’s Scientific and Mechanic Institute in 1825. This organisation was set up to bring the “acquisition of useful knowledge” within the reach of all, particularly the trading and working classes. Whilst our institution was...
What’s in a name?: Reading the Register at the Stationers’ Company Archive
Archives Hub feature for May 2025 The Stationers Company started out as a ‘mystery’, or craft association, in 1403. This was late for a traditional City company, reflecting the relatively lowly status of the Stationers’ trades: scribes, limners and book-binders were considerably less essential to the economy than workers of metal and leather, or provisioners...
The Revans Collection for Action Learning at Salford Digital Archives
Archives Hub feature for April 2025 “It’s only when one is obliged to ask oneself quite fresh questions about what one is doing, that one really starts to learn.” Reginald Revans Action learning is an approach to problem solving which continues today to be an effective and well-used method. Rather than prioritising ‘expert knowledge’ handed...

Bulinus – the tropical freshwater snail ‘missing’ from LSTHM’s pantheon of gilded vectors. LSHTM Rare Book Blogs Series 12. June 2025.
Library, Archive & Open Research Services blog The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in Keppel Street, Bloomsbury was opened in... Library, Archive & Open Research Services blog - News & features from LAORS
Join the LSHTM Open Research Champion Network
Library, Archive & Open Research Services blog The LSHTM Open Research Champion Network is a new initiative designed to build expertise and promote a... Library, Archive & Open Research Services blog - News & features from LAORS
Mental Health Awareness Week 12-18 May 2025
Library, Archive & Open Research Services blog Since 2001, the Mental Health Foundation has been leading Mental Health Awareness Week – bringing... Library, Archive & Open Research Services blog - News & features from LAORS

Dear James It's very good to hear from you! N...
Dear JamesIt's very good to hear from you! Norman Dott did work in the Sick Kids sometimes - funnily enough, so did his brother, Eric: http://lhsa.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/a-man-of-principle-look-into-life-of.html. We don't have much from the Sick Kids during your time there, but we may have register entries for you. If you'd like us to look into this, please […]
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Dr dott ) saved my life in 1947 ,I was just a youn...
Dr dott ) saved my life in 1947 ,I was just a young child but my parents told me full story from sick kids edinburgh. I am now in my 70's.

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