resources Archives - British Society for the History of Medicine https://bshm.org.uk/category/resources/ Sun, 28 Oct 2018 15:32:19 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 Collecting “stuff” https://bshm.org.uk/collecting-stuff/ https://bshm.org.uk/collecting-stuff/#respond Sun, 28 Oct 2018 15:25:51 +0000 https://bshm.org.uk/?p=4271 Recently my wife and I have been trying to declutter our home; an emotional process that threatens domestic harmony and generates both relief and bereavement in equal measure. A lifetime of collected material artefacts and documents entombed in draws, cupboards or cardboard boxes are finally being subjected to the “William Morris test”: is it useful, […]

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]]> https://bshm.org.uk/collecting-stuff/feed/ 0 New collection of medical photographs https://bshm.org.uk/new-collection-of-medical-photographs/ https://bshm.org.uk/new-collection-of-medical-photographs/#respond Fri, 10 Aug 2018 11:53:59 +0000 http://bshm.org.uk/?p=3786 Thanks to a grant from the Wellcome Trust, the Historic England Archive has completed a 12 month project to conserve, digitise, and catalogue a collection of photographic prints showing health and social care in Britain between 1938 and 1943. The 4,071 black and white photographs were taken by Norman Kingsley Harrison for the Topical Press […]

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