Archives Hub

• The Devonshire Family Collections at Chatsworth
  Archives Hub feature for March 2019 The Devonshire Collection Archives held at Chatsworth span over 450 years and date back to the time of Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (c.1527-1708, better known as Bess of Hardwick), with elements of the archive dating from even earlier. They document the lives, careers and estate management of the...
• “Gather them in” – the musical treasures of W.T. Freemantle
  Archives Hub feature for February 2019 A new exhibition at the Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery at the University of Leeds explores the story of a forgotten Yorkshireman whose achievements are now being reassessed. Dr Bryan White, Senior Lecturer in the School of Music at the University of Leeds, has been researching the material collected...
• Survey: Digital Skills in the Archives Sector
    Do you work in the archives sector? What are your digital strengths? What digital support and training do you still need? The National Archives and Jisc have created a survey to hear the latest thoughts of those working within (or who have a professional connection to) the sector on all aspects of their digital...

Dame Cicely Saunders Cataloguing project, King’s College London

• Happy birthday, Cicely: welcome to your archive!
  To mark what would have been Cicely Saunders’ 98th birthday, I’m pleased to announce that the archives of this inspirational …Continue reading →
• Palliative Care Records Workshop
  On 15th December 2015, King’s College London Archives hosted a workshop on palliative care records to mark the completion of …Continue reading →
• Christmas at St Christopher’s
  Christmas at St Christopher’s Hospice was a special and poignant time of year for patients, their families and staff at …Continue reading →

Leeds University Special Collections

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives blog

• International Women’s Day: 2019
  International Women’s Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and...
• Research Councils UK open access funding 2019-2020
  We’re pleased to announce that we will again have Research Councils UK open access publication...
• Library resources feedback
  The Library Team are currently undertaking a feedback project about resources. We’d like to hear...

Lothian Health Services Archive

• During my time I was diagnosed of Herpes and HIV/A...
  During my time I was diagnosed of Herpes and HIV/Aids I was advised not to speak to certain people about my Health “orthodox side” because they’re all lying shills and sociopaths or not take seriously scientific information on HIV because according to the denialists it’s all propaganda from the “AIDS establishment”. I decided to do […]
• During my time I was diagnosed of Herpes and HIV/A...
  During my time I was diagnosed of Herpes and HIV/Aids I was advised not to speak to certain people about my Health “orthodox side” because they’re all lying shills and sociopaths or not take seriously scientific information on HIV because according to the denialists it’s all propaganda from the “AIDS establishment”. I decided to do […]
• During my time I was diagnosed of Herpes and HIV/A...
  During my time I was diagnosed of Herpes and HIV/Aids I was advised not to speak to certain people about my Health “orthodox side” because they’re all lying shills and sociopaths or not take seriously scientific information on HIV because according to the denialists it’s all propaganda from the “AIDS establishment”. I decided to do […]

Museum of the Mind blog

• Listen: A Self-Help Book? Writing and Reading The Anatomy of Melancholy
  Listen to a recording of Dr Mary Ann Lund's talk on The Anatomy of Melancholy and Robert Burton's use of writing as a form of therapy.
• Listen to Breaking Bread Talk with Tim May
  Listen to Tim May talk about the historical, cultural and spiritual significance of bread.
• The Maudsley at War
  Bethlem Museum of the Mind are currently showing archival photographs from the time the Maudsley was used as a military hospital, treating psychological casualties of WWI.

Remedia

• Vitamin B Complexities
  By Karen Reeds This post is part of the series ‘What Should I Eat? Why?’ commissioned in collaboration with H-Net Nutrition by series editors Kristen Ann Ehrenberger and Lisa Haushofer. Posts will appear simultaneously on both sites. Please visit and
• What Should I Eat?: The Influence of a Food Editor
  By Kimberly Wilmot Voss This post is part of the series ‘What Should I Eat? Why?’ commissioned in collaboration with H-Net Nutrition by series editors Kristen Ann Ehrenberger and Lisa Haushofer. Posts will appear simultaneously on both sites. Please visit
• What Should I Not Eat? Cleansing Foods
  By Cristina Hanganu-Bresch This post is part of the series ‘What Should I Eat? Why?’ commissioned in collaboration with H-Net Nutrition by series editors Kristen Ann Ehrenberger and Lisa Haushofer. Posts will appear simultaneously on both sites. Please visit and

Royal College of Surgeons of England Library blog

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Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Historical Collections Blog

• Assessing the landscape of quality improvement in the veterinary profession
• Clinical audits – a veterinary nurse’s perspective
• A Few Of My Favourite Things
  I thought before I leave my role here, and go off to study for my MA in Archives and Records Management, it would be a nice idea to share snippets of my favourite finds and favourite materials that I’ve had the pleasure of working with during my time with RCVS Knowledge’s historical collections. For those […]

The Anatomy Lab

• Pathology Spotlight: Brain Aneurysm
  Our Human Remains Conservator takes a look at Brain Aneurysms in our latest Pathology Spotlight blog.   The walls of our arteries and veins are composed of three layers,  with varying amounts of elasticity to respond to the pulses of blood that come from the heart’s regular beating. Sometimes areas of the wall can become thin... […]
• A Few Words About Formaldehyde
  Our Human Remains Conservator Cat Irving discusses the misconceptions behind the use of formaldehyde and explains why you won’t see much of it in our Collections. Peter Carey’s novel Jack Maggs is set in London in 1837. A Charles Dickens-esque character called Tobias Oates goes into a shop in Whitechapel where he buys what is... […]
• Pathology Spotlight: Galeazzi Fracture of the Radius
  In February’s Pathology Spotlight, Professor Ken Donaldson, Senior Research Fellow in the Museum takes explains Galeazzi Fractures.   The radius, the forearm bone that connects to the thumb, has been broken by trauma near its end (arrow) and the hand is deflected upwards. The ulna has retained its position but the forced lateral and upward... […]

The John Rylands Library Special Collection Blog

• Chinese Educational Texts of the Late Qing Dynasty
  As part of our ongoing work on the library’s Chinese collections (see previous blog post) we are beginning to digitise …Continue reading →
• Hidden Histories: Wilful and Wondrous Women
  To celebrate International Women’s Day (although I like to think of it as the whole month) I would like to …Continue reading →
• Seminar: Correspondence, Provenance, and the Ethics of Collecting, 6 March 2019
  Originally posted on Lives of Letters: Please join us for our second seminar of the semester, featuring two twenty-minute presentations and discussion.…

The Library of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow

TIHR Archive Project

• Learning the details: when honoring the past liberates the creativity in the present.
  By Antonio Sama Image credit (“Pesca del pescespada a Scilla” (1949) by Renato Guttuso) how the archive inspired a new relationship with my mentor. I was invited recently to contribute to a collective book in memory of my late mentor and friend Professor Giovanni Mastroianni, who died in August 2016. This was intended as a collection […]
• #4 Social Dreaming Matrix Notes From Wednesday 28 November 2018
  Wellcome Library – Tavistock Institute Social Dreaming Matrix No. 4 28th November 2018, 2.00 – 3.30   Facilitators: Rachel Kelly and Tazi Smith The last of a series of four Social Dreaming Matrices held in the Reading Room at the Wellcome Library during November, where members of the public met together to reveal  their dreams and […]
• #3 Social Dreaming Matrix Notes From 22nd November
  Wellcome Library – Tavistock Institute Social Dreaming Matrix No. 3 22nd November 2018, 7.00 – 8.30   13 people attended and 4 left during the matrix. 7 dreams presented 11 associations Hosts: Eliat Aram and Mannie Sher ‘Inside Out’: First dream introduced into the matrix is about being in Sierra Leone with a girlfriend who […]

University of Stirling Archives

• PoP & Protest: The Musicians’ Union in the 1980s
  A new exhibition exploring the history of the Musicians Union in the 1980s, Pop and…Read the postPoP & Protest: The Musicians’ Union in the 1980s
• The Answers in the archive…
  The recent publicity surrounding the rediscovery of a time capsule buried in the University’s Gannochy…Read the postThe Answers in the archive…
• 2018: End-of-year review
  The festive season always brings it end-of-year polls and ‘best of’ lists. We’re partial to…Read the post2018: End-of-year review