Directory of grants awarded, 2000/01–2011/12

Research Resources in Medical History Contents

Introduction by Professor Mark Jackson 2

Regions 6 London 6 South East 31 South West 41 Midlands 45 North 48 Scotland 55 Ireland 69 Wales 73

Charts 75 Amount awarded by geographical area and year (2000/01–2011/12) 76 Amount awarded by geographical area (2000/01–2011/12) 76 Amount awarded by type of organisation and year (2000/01–2011/12) 77 Amount awarded by type of organisation (2000/01–2011/12) 77

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Written by Sue Crossley with Georgia Bladon. Cover image courtesy of the National Museums and Galleries of Wales. All other images appear courtesy of their related archives. Please contact the archives directly for more information. Introduction

Professor Mark Jackson, Library to support the preservation, Introduction University of Exeter conservation and cataloguing of any material that would be of value to historians of medicine. It has sometimes been suggested that at the The first grants were awarded in 2001 to eight heart of every good history book there is a good archives, libraries, institutes and hospitals archive. At one level, this is clearly an around Britain. Three years later, the scheme exaggeration. There are many fine historical was reviewed by the Wellcome Trust’s Strategic studies – those of Michel Foucault, for example Planning and Policy Unit. The review evaluated – that are light on archival sources but the impact of funding support, identified the exceptionally rich in theoretical subtlety, textual pattern of awards and considered the future sophistication and ideological significance. At directions of the scheme should it be continued. another level, however, there is some truth in At that stage, applications were more often for the assumption that fine archives are often cataloguing than for preservation and essential for generating detailed and original conservation measures and were usually focused historical studies of medicine, healthcare and on a combination of printed and archival disease. From a personal perspective, I have been material. The conclusions of the review, which deeply grateful not only for the availability and were strongly endorsed by leading historians of accessibility of archives and printed book medicine, were clear: the scheme was already collections, but also for the cultured advice and beginning to have a major impact on the survival friendship of archivists and librarians around the and accessibility of records, and follow-on world. This directory of grants awarded by the funding, particularly for the preservation and Wellcome Trust between 2001 and 2011 provides conservation of fragile materials, would be strong evidence, if any is needed, of the richness required to develop collections further. of archival and printed records now available for historical scrutiny; of the past, present and In spite of strong support for the scheme from future value of archival sources for historians of historians, archivists, librarians and medicine and many other scholars; and of the conservators, some issues were raised both expansive contributions of the Wellcome Trust during and after the review for further to the preservation, conservation, cataloguing consideration. In particular, historians and digitisation of those records. emphasised the need to address the possibility of funding overseas collections, the challenges of The evolution of a scheme dealing with electronic sources, the importance For more than a decade, the Wellcome Trust’s of making funds available for pilot projects or Research Resources in Medical History (RRMH) scoping exercises, and the need to link the scheme has been at the forefront of efforts to funding applications more closely with the reclaim and make available sources deposited in interests of historians of medicine from the archives, libraries and record offices or neglected start. Many historians also stressed the necessity in the basements of various scientific and clinical of creating a separate funding stream to support institutions. The scheme was born in 1999, when the scheme. In the light of these comments, the the Trust convened a conference entitled Wellcome Trust governors agreed to continue to ‘Healthy Heritage: Collecting for the future of fund RRMH, in the region of £500 000 per year medical history’. The aim of the meeting, which (to be taken from the History of Medicine involved a combination of archivists, librarians, budget), and decided that the scheme would be clinicians and historians, was to raise awareness reviewed on a regular basis and be administered of the resources available and “discuss the solely by the Trust. The outcome of the review challenges associated with preserving this and subsequent discussions was the creation of a growing record for the future”. Papers presented highly efficient team of Trust officers, led by Sue at the conference explored emerging issues Crossley and supported by several office staff. associated with printed medical literature, The benefits of this approach included the archival sources, electronic data, visual sources potential for Trust staff to initiate early and the challenges of preservation. They also collaboration between applicants and historians discussed concerns about the collection and of medicine and the investment of scoping funds retention policies – and the future – of libraries and expert advice that helped to improve the and archives. quality of applications. One of the dilemmas created by the enhanced services offered to As a result of that meeting, a new (but initially applicants was the pressure to make difficult temporary) Wellcome Trust funding scheme was funding decisions within the context of limited established in collaboration with the British budgetary resources.

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As awareness of the RRMH scheme increased and accessible online for researchers from all Archive to preserve and facilitate access to resurrect the initial spirit of collaboration with as historians, archivists and librarians began to disciplines. Within this framework, the role of important collections of case notes (Mike other funders, echoing recent initiatives within cooperate more constructively, the Trust also the RRMH funding stream has been to help Barfoot). In its early years in particular, the biomedical science funding: for example, a initiated a series of annual conferences to bring preserve, conserve and catalogue important scheme undoubtedly did much to ensure the coordinated scheme of support including the together an interdisciplinary group of historians of collections of archival material for subsequent survival of many institutional records, particularly British Library, The National Archives, the medicine and RRMH grantholders, to share best digitisation according to the Library’s priorities. those relating to asylums and psychiatric services National Library of Scotland and the Arts and practice and “to explore some of the challenges In both ways, RRMH has become more clearly and to 19th-century hospitals. More recently, Humanities Research Council, as well as the connected to the use of patient records” in embedded not only within the research interests since the introduction of the Trust’s five themed Wellcome Trust, would reach further into the particular. Some key points to emerge from the of scholars in the medical humanities but also challenges, RRMH funds have secured the archival world than the Trust can alone and 2007 conference in Edinburgh were the need to within the Wellcome Trust’s commitment to survival of the personal papers of many maximise awareness and impact. address issues relating to the Data Protection and achieving extraordinary improvements in prominent scientists and clinicians, such as the Freedom of Information Acts, the need to develop human and animal health. distinguished geneticist Sir Walter Bodmer. The final concern is the preservation and new strategies for dealing with a widening range accessibility of non-documentary resources. In of source material, and the need to maximise the Successes and challenges Although funding for securing research the future, there will be an increasing demand impact of the scheme through public engagement Reflecting on the past decade or so of RRMH resources for present and future generations of for access to electronic data and correspondence; activities. Particular challenges identified on that funding reveals several distinct successes and scholars has been immensely successful, issues a clear strategy for dealing with such material is occasion also included the difficulties of some continuing challenges for the future. By remain. In the first place, much still needs to be essential. In addition, the Funding Committee determining which records should be kept and 2009, the scheme had already funded 134 done to link the scheme more closely to the ideas has regularly considered applications relating to where, and which tools and advice archivists need applications, and the resources made available by and interests of the research community. In visual material, including photographs, slides, “to act legally and ethically”, the need to change these grants are now becoming visible in particular, it would be constructive to integrate pathological specimens and videos. Some of the culture “to acknowledge the importance of emergent research projects and through public the selection and preservation of sources with these, such as the film records of R D Laing’s research, and facilitate access, rather than over engagement activities on radio and television emergent themes pursued by postgraduate and 1972 lecture tour to the USA (University of protect personal data”, and the importance of and in the local and national press. In some postdoctoral researchers. Workshops for these Glasgow, Special Collections Department), have developing policies related to the preservation of ways, it is perhaps inappropriate to single out groups might help to encourage productive links been of exceptional quality and significance and electronic databases and records. specific applications and their outcomes because between historians, archivists and librarians have led to considerable interest from the any choice will necessarily be personal and from the early stages of their research careers, research community and the media. Others have The profile of the RRMH scheme was partial. Nonetheless, given the fact that the full promote interdisciplinary research and advertise fared less well, perhaps partly because of heightened by the Wellcome Trust’s review of grants directory outlines the complete run of the range of sources available. Second, although historians’ preference for written sources but the complete History of Medicine programme, successful projects, I will draw attention to those integration with the Wellcome Trust’s challenges also because issues concerning the appropriate carried out in 2009 by Professor Joanna Bourke applications and approaches that have impressed has certainly focused the attention of scholars media and strategy for storage remain (Birkbeck College, London), with Professor Keith me during my time as a member and chair of the and archivists on specific collections, it will be unresolved. These are complex issues for future Thomas (All Souls, Oxford) acting as an advisor. RRMH Funding Committee. essential for the future of the scheme to develop research communities, archivists, librarians, The Bourke Report, as it became known, stronger collaboration with Wellcome Collection conservators and cataloguers to disentangle. highlighted the strengths of the history of First, I am delighted that historians, archivists and and the Wellcome Digital Library strategy, medicine in Britain, acknowledged the extensive librarians are collaborating more closely to thereby allowing greater public and professional Concluding remarks contributions of funding from the Wellcome protect and advertise a rich array of archival and appreciation and use of the resources. I am delighted to introduce this directory of Trust, emphasised the need to broaden the remit printed sources. This strategy offers the most grants funded by the RRMH scheme over the of Trust support to include scholars from effective means of ensuring not only the survival One of the key issues raised after the review in past decade or so. It has been a pleasure to work disciplines within the wider humanities, and but also the usage of important components of 2004 was the possibility of extending the scheme with scholars, archivists, library staff and others argued for more ambitious interdisciplinary our heritage. Second, the Funding Committee has to overseas collections. In many ways, this would in the various domains within which the scheme research projects that would exploit new been grateful for the capacity of Sue Crossley and constitute an excellent development: an has operated. The aim of this directory is not resources and raise new questions at the her team to support, advise and nurture increasing number of scholars are now working merely to celebrate success but to raise interface between science, medicine and the applicants as they begin to frame and deliver their on transnational and global histories of science awareness of the variety of resources now humanities. Since then, the scheme has evolved projects. This has led to a considerable and medicine, and the availability of such available, to highlight the need for continued in two significant ways. First, calls for improvement in the quantity and quality of grant sources would not only facilitate the work of cooperation between different parties, to applications have been linked directly to the applications and in the successful promotion of British researchers but also enhance research in encourage closer attention to the range of Trust’s five major challenges: maximising the the scheme across Britain and Ireland. Before the areas of the world where funding for resources is methodological approaches that must be health benefits of genetics and genomics; links to the Wellcome Trust’s strategic challenges, limited. This approach would also resonate with employed, and to identify future challenges. It is understanding the brain; combating infectious some of the emphatic successes were projects to the Wellcome Trust’s increasing presence on the now the responsibility of the next generation to disease; investigating development, ageing and preserve and catalogue the records from global stage and the Trust’s open access policy. ensure that the scheme continues to evolve in a chronic disease; and connecting environment, Broadmoor Hospital (Mark Stevens, Berkshire The obstacle to such expansion is financial. At manner that is innovative and sustainable and nutrition and health. The result of this approach Record Office), the creation of online sources present, the funds available barely stretch to the contributes effectively to the Wellcome Trust’s has been to amplify the value of the scheme to from British India (Jan Usher, National Library of most important British and Irish archival aim of understanding science and medicine in the Trust’s vision and to expose and safeguard Scotland), the project to make available medical collections. To make overseas resources available historical and cultural context in order to magnificent collections of personal papers in officers’ journals from the Royal Navy (Valerie would require considerable additional improve human and animal health. particular. The second major development has Johnson and Bruno Pappalardo, The National investment, which may be unrealistic in the been the Wellcome Library’s digitisation scheme, Archives), and the extensive and pioneering work current economic climate. Given these Mark Jackson is Chair of the Research Resources the aim of which is to make key resources carried out by the Lothian Health Services constraints, it might be worth attempting to in Medical History Funding Committee.

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London Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives and Museum

Patient History: conservation of Bethlem and Maudsley discharge summaries (1951–1964) • Conservation of Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital discharge summaries (1967–1993) • Digitisation and online publication of the admissions books of the Royal Bethlem Hospital (1683–1902)

Three grants awarded during the past decade modern records for use by current and future Grant number: have increased access to the archives of Bethlem researchers. Digitised images of each page were Gr080094 Royal Hospital through digitisation and attached to the existing catalogue descriptions. Amount awarded: conservation projects. A grant awarded in 2003 The catalogue and images are now available £21 146 funded the digitisation and online publication of online via the Bethlem Archives website.

Grant number: the admission books of Bethlem Royal Hospital Gr074245 (1692–1902), providing remote open access to the Contact Amount awarded: historic records of the hospital. Following this, Archives and Museum £4800 two grants were awarded to Bethlem Royal Bethlem Royal Hospital Hospital in 2006 and 2008 for the conservation Monks Orchard Road Grant number: of more recent Bethlem and Maudsley discharge Beckenham Gr087482 summaries. The first covered 1951–1964, and a Kent BR3 3BX Amount awarded: second tranche covered 1967–1993. These awards www.bethlemheritage.org.uk/Archive_Cat.asp £59 663 have ensured the long-term survival of sensitive

Biochemical Society

A Research Resources in Medical History One grant (2007) grant was awarded to the Biochemical Total: £27 096 Society in 2007 to catalogue its archives. The wide-ranging collection comprises official records dating back to the Society’s foundation in 1911, collections of individual Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. The biochemists’ papers acquired by the Society, laboratory notebooks cover the period 1944– and a collection of video interviews with key 1981 and provide a full record of his ground- scientists whose work has underpinned the breaking experiments, offering a fascinating development of biomedical science in the 20th insight into both Sanger’s science and his century. The archive includes a complete set of character and processes. Phrases like “this was a 35 laboratory notebooks belonging to the total waste of time…will start again” are found double Nobel Laureate Fred Sanger, whose throughout his writings. work on the structure of proteins and the base sequences in nucleic acids played a crucial part The archive – which remains the property of the in unlocking the genetic code. His research Biochemical Society – was transferred to the team produced the first DNA whole genome Wellcome Library, where it is held alongside an sequence, and the techniques he developed already extensive collection of contemporary provided the platform for the Human Genome scientific papers, including those of Francis Project, which was led in the UK by the

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Crick. The records are fully described in the research resource that brings together 20 British Dental Association Wellcome Library’s online archives database and important genetics archives and more than 1400 can be ordered for consultation in the Library. In genetics books from the Wellcome Library and Conservation of the glass lantern slide collection addition, the papers have been professionally partner institutions. Sanger’s laboratory housed and are held in secure storage conditions notebooks complement the papers of fellow In 2002, a grant was awarded to the British Dental conforming to BS5454 standards. Nobel Prize winners Maurice Wilkins, Francis Grant number: Association for the conservation of its glass lantern Crick and James Watson, as well as the papers of GR071017 slide collection, which documents all aspects of Amount awarded: An important outcome of this project was the Wilkins’s co-worker at KCL, Rosalind Franklin. dental history and provides a unique record of the £8625 inclusion of Sanger’s notebooks in a major development of the dental profession. The digitisation initiative by the Wellcome Library. Online collection consists of 800 quarter-sized glass plate ‘Foundations of Modern Genetics’ is a digital genome.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTX042246.html lantern slides developed by George Cunningham LDS (1852–1919), the ‘father’ of the school dental Contact service, and Lilian Lindsay LDS MBE, Britain’s first British Dental Association qualified female dentist. Digitised images of the 64 Wimpole Street slides are now available to researchers and the London W1G 8YS original slides have been preserved. www.bda.org/museum/collections/ Birkbeck College, University of London

The Sloane Printed Books Project – a supplementary grant for extension and enrichment

In 2009, a Research Resources in Medical History Grant number: grant was awarded to Birkbeck College to continue British Library GR090828 support for the Sloane Printed Books Project, first Amount awarded: established through Research Resources in Medical The Research Resources in Medical History £64 074 History funding in collaboration with the Four grants grants awarded to the British Library have Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine (2003–2010) substantially improved access to four distinct at UCL in 2008 (see UCL GR082902). The project Total: £148 351 history of medicine collections. Two concern makes available for research and public use a the papers of eminent scientists and the database of the books once belonging to Sir Hans others concern a rare collection of medieval Sloane (1660–1753), which, after his death, formed manuscripts and sound recordings from the one of the foundation collections of the British national Sound Archive. Museum Library. The first project, in 2003, dealt with the and cross-referencing for researchers Contact cataloguing and conservation of the papers worldwide. Alison Walker of Alexander Fleming, who was awarded a Lead Researcher, Sloane Printed Books Project Nobel Prize for his discovery of penicillin in In 2010, the Research Resources in Medical The British Library 1945. The collection, which is of great History programme awarded additional 96 Euston Road significance for research and modern funding for the cataloguing and preservation of London NW1 2DB scholarship, had been arranged but was listed the papers and electronic files of the geneticist T +44 (0)20 7412 7465 only briefly with a general indication of content Anne McLaren, which constitute an important E [email protected] and minimal indexing. The project produced and near-complete scientific archive that is www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/prbooks/ enhanced descriptions and detailed indexing; it currently generating substantial interest sloaneprintedbooksproject/sloaneprinted.html also established the context and order of the among researchers. Recent research supported material as far as possible, while preserving the by the archive has included the Wellcome chronology of the collection. Particular Trust-funded research project on the history of attention was paid to the correspondence, developmental mammalian biology by Sarah lectures, speeches and laboratory notebooks Franklin (LSE), Martin Johnson and Nick in which Fleming recorded his research. The Hopwood (Cambridge) and a scientific notebooks, in particular, merited detailed biography by Georgina Ferry. This archive analysis to make them more accessible to would support further research into topics such specialist enquirers, and the entirety of the as the recent history and social studies of new cataloguing was added to the Department biomedicine, the relationship between genetics of Manuscripts online finding aid – and development in biology, assisted transforming the possibilities for search reproductive technologies, and bioethics, along

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with broader topics such as women in science. interviews with medical professionals (including The Children’s Society The archive is now freely available to nurses, GPs, pharmacists and physiotherapists), Cataloguing and preservation of the Children’s Society archive: researchers at the British Library. This users of specific health services (such as mental unexplored riches in medical history collection could also be included in future health services and those relating to HIV/AIDS) digitisation projects. and other groups, whose experiences provide important evidence in the social history of In 2010, following a small grant in 2009 to assess potential of the collection for studying the In 2004, an award was granted to support a health and on topics such as ageing, childbirth, Grant number: the scale and scope of work required to history of child health and development. cataloguing project involving the Harleian housing and homelessness, domestic violence, GR094766 catalogue and preserve the huge historic archive Collection, one of the three foundation and sexual abuse. Amount awarded: of the Children’s Society, a larger award was Contact collections in the British Library’s department £10 000 made to take the project forward. The Society The Children’s Society Records and Archive of manuscripts, which includes medical The project involved performing a complete Grant number: was established in 1881, and during its history it Centre manuscripts from the early 16th to 17th audit of all health and medical collections GR096961 has been at the forefront of initiatives dealing Block A Floor 2 centuries. The collection was previously poorly before a description was included for each Amount awarded: with childhood problems caused by poverty, Tower Bridge Business Complex catalogued and only available to readers in the individual recording in the online catalogue £108 815 illness, family disruption and long-term care. 100 Clement’s Road Manuscripts Reading Room at the British (www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/sound/ The archive contains 625 linear metres of papers, London SE16 4DG Library, but this project has provided web- ohist/ohcoll/ohmed/medicine.html). including 140 000 individual case files, central T +44 (0)20 7232 2966 based access to the medieval manuscripts administration records and archives relating to E [email protected] identified as containing medical or medicine- Online the children’s homes run by the Society. Work is www.hiddenlives.org.uk related texts. Many of the most important Medieval Medical Manuscripts in the Harleian currently underway to open up the research medical texts from Antiquity to the late Middle Collection Ages exist in this collection; it includes a www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/ tenth-century copy of Hippocrates, for manuscripts/medievalmedharleian/harleian. example. Together, these texts constitute a html gateway to the understanding of medieval medicine in England. The Florence

In 2002, a grant was awarded to the National Nightingale Museum Sound Archive at the British Library to improve access to its oral history collection relating to Digitising Florence Nightingale’s letters medical subjects. The collections include

A collection of letters written by Florence Contact Grant number: Nightingale and belonging to the Florence Florence Nightingale Museum GR091918 Nightingale Museum are housed at London 2 Lambeth Palace Road Amount awarded: Metropolitan Archives. A Research Resources in London SE1 7EW £20 000 Medical History grant awarded to the Museum T +44 (0)20 7620 0374 British Medical Association in 2009 funded a project to conserve, transcribe www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/cms/index.php/ and digitise the collection, comprising around collection/letters A survey of the BMA’s 20th-century registry file collection 800 letters. Historians and interested members of the public can view digital copies via the In 2005, a small grant was awarded to the British Contact engaging museum website. Grant number: Medical Association (BMA) for a three-month BMA Library GR077445 project to assess the research value of the BMA House Amount awarded: BMA’s 20th-century registry file collection Tavistock Square £7000 and establish the historical research value London WC1H 9JP of the collection. T +44 (0)20 7874 7020 bma.org.uk/about-the-bma/bma-library

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Great Ormond Street Imperial War Museum Hospital Database Cataloguing the papers of Air Vice Marshal Sir William Tyrrell • Surveying the History of Medicine Collection in the Imperial War Museum Microfilming the admissions registers of Great Ormond Street Hospital In 2005, a grant was awarded to the Imperial War This led to a further award in 2008 for a six-month Grant number: Museum to catalogue the papers of Sir William project to identify and assess un-accessioned GR078828 Tyrrell, who served in the medical branches of Imperial War Museum medical history collections. Amount awarded: Grant number: In 2001 a small grant was awarded to the Contact both the Army and the RAF. He also contributed The project enabled new material to come to light £29 000 Gr070813 archives of Great Ormond Street Hospital to Museum & Archives Service to the 1922 War Report on shell shock, using – primarily from the Department of Documents, Amount awarded: microfilm inpatient registers of the Hospital Great Ormond Street Hospital Grant number: himself as a case study. The collection consists of but including some items from the Film and Video £3500 (1852–1900) and Cromwell House, the Great Ormond Street GR091987 letters, diaries, official documents, photographs, and Photograph archives. convalescent home (1869-1900). Databases London WC1N 3JH Amount awarded: personal accounts and ephemera. The papers are created from the records led to the development www.gosh.nhs.uk/about-us/our-history/ £15 707 an unrivalled source on several important topics Contact of the ‘Small and Special’ website and a series of museum-and-archive-services/ in 20th-century medical history, particularly at Imperial War Museum London further grants awarded to Kingston University to the intersection of medicine and military Lambeth Road develop databases of historic records relating to operations. London SE1 6HZ 19th-century hospitals for children (see separate T +44 (0)20 7416 5320 entry for Kingston for details).

Institute of Psychoanalysis

Cataloguing and preserving the archives of the British Psychoanalytical Society

The archives of the British Psychoanalytical psychoanalysis in the Emergency Medical Grant number: Society were made accessible to researchers Services during World War II. GR074832 through a cataloguing and preservation project Amount awarded: supported by a Research Resources in Medical Contact £71 711 History grant in 2004. Reflecting the Society’s Library of the British Psychoanalytical Society role in medicine, mental health and society at The Institute of Psychoanalysis large, they include the papers and Byron House correspondence of eminent psychoanalysts such 112A Shirland Road as Ernest Hones, John Rickman, Wilfred Bion, London W9 2EQ John Bowlby, D W Winnicott, Edward Glover www.psychoanalysis.org.uk/archivescatalogues. and Tom Main. The Rickman papers in htm particular illustrate the part played by

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Since the cataloguing, the collection has seen a and partner institutions. Wilkins’s archive King’s College significant increase in use: 150–200 library users complements those of fellow Nobel Prize visit the collection every year to research topics winners Francis Crick and James Watson, as London Library of study including naval medicine, public health well as the papers of Wilkins’ co-worker at administration in colonial Africa, popular King’s, Rosalind Franklin. medical journals and the history of anatomical and Archives illustration. The grant has also helped the The most recent of these more specific College to publicise the collection by mounting cataloguing and preservation projects, awarded Since 2001, the Research Resources in Medical an exhibition, Medicine Embodied, in 2006, in 2010, supported ‘A Geneticist’s Library: The Nine grants History programme has awarded nine grants (2001–2010) which used the St Thomas’s Hospital Historical collection of Reginald Ruggles Gates (1882– relating to the history of medicine collections Total: £364 431 Collection as a means of exploring developments 1962)’, which provided a link between the at King’s College London. in the history and understanding of medicine catalogued private papers and the previously from the 15th century to the 19th. unlisted printed book collection of a leading The first of these projects, in 2001, provided 1350 printed books in the collection were plant, animal and human geneticist whose life online access to the College’s principal printed before 1850 and were in poor condition. After these broader projects, King’s College and work reflect the often controversial collections relating to the history of medicine, In addition to the cataloguing and promotional successfully completed three specific debates surrounding the history of genetics. containing more than two million pages of work that took place, substantial physical cataloguing and preservation projects that were Described as an outstanding example of a material dating from 1723 to 2003. The material, preservation was needed, and by the project’s funded by the Research Resources in Medical geneticist’s working library, the Ruggles Gates which covers the beginning of formalised end all of the most vulnerable items in the History programme between 2008 and 2010. printed book collection is now accessible, and medical education in London, addresses some of collection had received the required attention. King’s can encourage the historical medicine’s more intractable ethical questions, The completed collection was relocated to the The first was ‘Troubled Minds: A project to understanding of his work. such as the treatment of the dying and care in Foyle Special Collections Library to make it catalogue the papers of psychiatrists Sir Aubrey the community of psychiatric patients. The more accessible, and it has since been joined by Lewis (1900–1975), Hilda Stoessiger (1900–1966), A small grant awarded in 2008 supported a project improved access through the provision other historical medical collections. This has Professor John Gunn (b. 1937), and archives condition survey of the Leighton Facial of online descriptions of King’s archival resulted in a marked increase in use, and the relating to post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)’, Development Archive, a collection of 47 000 holdings. Since its creation, this resource has historical medical collection is now one of the which provided first-time access to archives on items (including radiographs, cine film and been drawn on heavily for online exhibitions, most heavily used of the School of Medicine three key themes in psychiatry: the impact of plaster casts) charting the growth of the skull including Faster, Further and Fairer: Science and and Dentistry Library collections. social deprivation, war and post-traumatic stress. and teeth, the development of dentition and sport at King’s College London (www.kcl.ac.uk/ It also provided matchless evidence of the physical maturity. The archive is arguably one depsta/iss/archives/sport/) and Dentistry: From The collection also includes several works by 20th-century modernisation of psychiatry of the largest surviving collections of its kind in pulling power to growing your own (www.kcl.ac. Joseph Lister in the field of antiseptic surgery. education and the advance of integrated the world. Details emerging from the survey uk/depsta/iss/archives/dentistry/), which This material complements the collection provision of public psychiatry services. reports enabled fundraising for the long-term between them get an average 50 000 web hits ‘Mind, body and spirit: surgical, psychiatric and care of the collection to begin. per month. palliative care at King’s College London’, which The second project, ‘DNA and Social became the subject of a further Research Responsibility: Cataloguing and preserving the Online 2002 saw the beginning of a preservation Resources in Medical History-funded papers of Nobel Prize winner, Professor Archives for Special Collections for Biomedical project to provide an efficient means of cataloguing project in 2006. This project Maurice Wilkins (1916–2004), and of King’s Sciences accessing information contained in three series catalogued new material on community College London Biophysics Unit’, provided full www.kcl.ac.uk/library/support/subject/bio/ of post-mortem registers, comprising 600 psychiatry, brain chemistry, care in the access to Wilkins’s archive. Spanning the years archives.aspx volumes of detailed case notes. The registers community and palliative oncology, and 1942–1999 and addressing themes of molecular Faster, Further and Fairer: Science and sport at are now fit for production and can withstand provided enhanced access to the work of Joseph meaning, wider social impact and the ethical King’s College London the increased levels of interest in the Lister, Professor William Lishman, Dr Alec conundrums associated with genetic research, www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/archives/sport/ collections. Buchanan, Professor Sarah Cowley and the collection also includes records of the Dentistry: From pulling power to growing your Professor Alison Richardson. earliest experiments at King’s relating to the own A further project, initiated in 2001, focused on advent of DNA sequencing (from 1949 to 1977). www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/archives/dentistry/ rare printed material from the King’s College In 2004, King’s used a Research Resources in School of Medicine and Dentistry Library. Medical History grant to undertake the A significant outcome of this project was the Content knowledge of this collection was cataloguing and appropriate conservation of inclusion of key parts of Wilkins’s archive in a previously limited, and the cataloguing has the St Thomas’s Hospital historical collection, major digitisation initiative by the Wellcome unlocked some hidden treasures, including a including all journals and pamphlets and a Library. ‘Foundations of Modern Genetics’ is a bound manuscript dated 1762 entitled Of the substantial proportion of the books section. digital research resource that brings together Small Poxs (containing doctors’ notes, diagnoses The project raised the visibility of the journal 20 important genetics archives and more than and cures) and a 17th-century manuscript copy and pamphlet holdings, which might otherwise 1400 genetics books from the Wellcome Library of An Hospital for the Diseased by Thomas have been neglected in comparison with the Cartwright, which contains material not more visually striking volumes of anatomical present in the printed version. Almost all of the plates or the better-known monographs.

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Kingston University, Library of the Religious Society of Friends Centre for Local Studies From abstinence to education: the temperance and moral welfare collections at the Library of the Religious Society of Friends: cataloguing, conservation and digitisation of the temperance and moral welfare collections of the Religious Society of Friends Extending the Great Ormond Street database ‘Small and Special’ and conducting a pilot on the case notes of Dr Charles West • A pilot project Following a preservation assessment, a grant was Contact on 19th- and 20th-century hospital admission and discharge registers Grant number: awarded to the Religious Society of Friends to Library of the Religious Society of Friends for sick children • Creating databases of Victorian children’s hospital GR089189 catalogue, conserve and digitise the archive of the Friends House patient admissions • Extending databases of children’s hospital patient Amount awarded: Friends Temperance and Moral Welfare Union. 173–177 Euston Road admissions • Digitising the case notes of Sir Archibald Garrod £58 550 The records, ranging from 1877 to the 1980s, London NW1 2BJ comprise books, pamphlets, archives, posters and T +44 (0)20 7663 1135 This series of grants began with a small project public via Kingston University’s website, forming lantern slides, providing a valuable resource for www.quaker.org.uk/TemperanceCollections Grant number: to microfilm the historic admissions registers of a core research tool on the development of further research on the history of alcohol and GR073912 Great Ormond Street Hospital, which led to the institutionalised childcare in the 19th and early drugs and their associated campaigns. Amount awarded: creation of the successful online research tool 20th centuries. £61 585 ‘Small and Special’. The project expanded with Grant number: the assistance of additional Research Resources The most recent grant enabled the digitisation GR083076 in Medical History funding to encompass the of the case notes of Sir Archibald Garrod, an Amount awarded: records of other children’s hospitals and was English physician who pioneered the field of £11 223 renamed the ‘Historic Hospitals Admissions inborn errors of metabolism and who served on Registers Project’ (HHARP). It provides the staff of Great Ormond Street Hospital, Bart’s The Linnean Society Grant number: historians with a unique means to study hospital and the Alexandra Hospital for Children with GR084252 Conservation assessment and cataloguing of the correspondence of Sir James Edward Smith (1759–1828) Amount awarded: provision for the sick children of 19th-century Hip Disease. £70 261 Britain. The databases contain details of patient admissions to Great Ormond Street Hospital, Online A grant was awarded to the Linnean Society in Smith’s correspondence covers many subjects in Grant number: Evelina Children’s Hospital and the Alexandra www.hharp.org Grant number: 2009 to catalogue the correspondence of Sir letters from a wide range of individuals. Smith GR087567 Hospital for Children with Hip Disease. In the fass.kingston.ac.uk/research/historical-record/ GR089195 James Edward Smith MD, FLS (1759–1828) in was in touch with many important political and Amount awarded: latest phase, records from the Royal Hospital for projects/hharp/ Amount awarded: preparation for its inclusion in a major scientific figures of his day, but he also received £71 070 Sick Children (Glasgow, Yorkhill) were added to £19 392 digitisation project. A contemporary of Sir letters from schoolgirls, book agents, the database, allowing comparisons to be made Joseph Banks and other 18th-century naturalists, nurserymen and gardeners. Major figures such as Grant number: GR095139 between London and Glasgow. The databases Smith was a prolific writer, doing much to Sir Joseph Banks, Erasmus Darwin, Humphrey Amount awarded: are freely available to researchers and the general further knowledge of plants and their useful Davy, Elizabeth Fry, Humphrey Repton and £94 646 properties and to popularise botany in Britain in W Henry Fox-Talbot all wrote to him. the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He maintained a network of more than 400 Contact correspondents, many having medical links. A The Linnean Society of London collection of approximately 3400 letters in 26 Burlington House bound albums was presented to the Society by Piccadilly Lambeth Palace Library his widow, and additional material has brought London W1J 0BF the total number of letters at the Linnean T +44 (0)20 7434 4479 Conservation of medical licences and Court of Arches records Society to approximately 4000. F +44 (0)20 7287 9364 E [email protected] www.linnean.org/index.php?id=454 Lambeth Palace Library received a grant in 2001 collections of Lambeth Palace and Sion College Grant number: for the conservation of documents relating to were conserved, including editions not found in GR070614 midwifery, including 66 applications to the either the British Library or the Wellcome Library, Amount awarded: Archbishop’s Master of the Faculties for licences such as Fabricius’s De Locutione (1601) and £4997 to practise medicine or midwifery in England and Archbishop Laud’s signed copy of the Aphorisms Wales from 1677 to 1764. Other documents made of Hippocrates. accessible by the grant included the records of the Court of Arches relating to the prosecution of a Contact midwife for practising without a license in 1665 Lambeth Palace Library and those relating to annulments of marriages London SE1 7JU based on medical evidence for the non- T +44 (0)20 7898 1400 consummation of marriage in the early 18th E [email protected] century. In addition, 16th- to 19th-century www.lambethpalacelibrary.org/content/ medical books and bound pamphlets from the collections

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the time, such as TB and smallpox. It also had valuable research potential. The records, which wide mental health functions and developed were discovered in the hospital’s basement, extensive facilities for sick children. Although were severely damaged and unusable, partly as the list was accurate, it was difficult for a result of shrapnel damage during World War contemporary users to understand, and these II. This project succeeded in repairing the difficulties were exacerbated by the lack of damaged volumes and bringing this valuable introductions or contextual notes. The archive, collection to the medical history research with consistent introductions and contextual community. The case books are now available notes added for each of the upper levels of for consultation by anyone wishing to learn description, now provides a valuable, easily more about the hospital and its doctors as they accessible resource for researchers. pursued alternative approaches to medical treatment between 1889 and 1923. Further funding awarded to LMA in 2004 enabled the conservation of the Royal London Catalogue descriptions are available via the Homeopathic Hospital’s historic case books. LMA website. The Royal London Homeopathic Hospital dates from 1889 to 1979, and the case books Online collection covers the period up to 1923. They London Metropolitan Archives home were compiled by leading homeopathic search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm practitioners such as Dr Washington Epps An article on the Normansfield conservation (1848–1912) and Sir John Weir (1879–1971). work by the project conservator The archive, which contains descriptions of 217.154.230.218/Corporation/LGNL_Services/ ailments and treatments illustrated by Leisure_and_culture/Records_and_archives/ London Metropolitan Archives diagrams and observation charts, offers Events/Normansfield+Hospital+Collection.htm London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) is the regarding pupil nurses. The archive catalogue, Four grants largest local authority record office in the UK together with an article describing the (2001–2009) and is home to 105 km of documents, films, conservation work undertaken by the project Total: £139 430 books and maps about London, dating from conservator, is available online. 1067 to the present day. LMA received four grants between 2001 and 2009, most recently In 2001, LMA received a grant for its Hospitals London School for the preservation and conservation of the for Londoners project, which created a web- Normansfield Hospital archives. based listing for six major archives: the of Hygiene and Leavesden Hospital, Queen Charlotte’s Hospital, Normansfield opened as a private hospital in 1868 Woolwich Memorial Hospital, Barnet Hospital, and is best known for the pioneering work of its National Heart Hospital, and the Tavistock and Tropical Medicine founder, Dr John Haydon Langdon-Down, who Portman Clinic records. Previously, no finding The first grant awarded to the London School of established the hospital to provide care for people aids existed for the hospital records, making Four grants Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), in with learning disabilities at a time when research arduous. Since the project was (2003–2008) 2003, was for the preservation and re- treatment and research into the nature of mental completed, the collection has been used Total: £126 670 cataloguing of the papers of Britain’s first Nobel illness was largely neglected. His most famous extensively for research, public engagement, and Prize winner, Sir Ronald Ross, and the Ross Philippines, and the USA. The collection is of achievement was the classification of Down’s learning and outreach programmes. These have Institute. Ross was awarded the Nobel Prize in major importance for study of the development syndrome, but his influence goes far beyond this engaged schools, families, academics, students Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for making the of the field of tropical medicine in the early 20th and his work at Normansfield Hospital is of and the general public with the collections crucial connection between malaria and century. paramount importance to the understanding of through talks, tours and practical workshops mosquitoes. His discovery has saved many lives, attitudes towards and treatments for people with such as ‘London’s Sick Children’, ‘Meet the and his epidemiological work on malaria – Although the project was initiated before the learning difficulties. Apothecary’ and ‘Their Past Your Future’. including the mathematical modelling he used creation of the Wellcome Trust’s strategic plan, – is still relevant today and provides a basis for it fits within the Trust’s research challenge The archive focused on the urgent preservation In 2003, LMA received an award to enhance the public health programmes to alleviate the misery ‘combating infectious diseases’, and it is and conservation of over 30 linear metres of catalogue description of the archive of the caused by tropical diseases. The extensive anticipated that substantial future research will papers. They include correspondence, articles of London Metropolitan Archives Asylums Board. archive of his life, which is now available for be produced as a result of the increased association, prospectuses, admissions and The Board was formed by a special Act of research and public interest, includes records of accessibility of the material. discharge registers, staff records, financial Parliament in 1867 to provide hospital services his work as a researcher in Britain and as a records, papers relating to the Normansfield for poor Londoners and did so until 1930. It had consultant and adviser on visits to West Africa, The Ross collection has been used in a variety of Enquiry, photographs, histories, newspaper specific responsibilities relating to the Panama, Greece and Cyprus, Malaya, the public engagement events, including ‘World cuttings, minutes, reports, plans, and papers infectious diseases and epidemics prevalent at

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Mosquito Day’ at the LSHTM in 2011, the admissions and discharges, numbers of beds, promotional events ‘Treasures from the LSHTM and numbers of medical and nursing staff. National Archives Archives’ and ‘Archives on Travel, Exploration Before digitisation, the value of this database and Discovery at LSHTM’ and, more recently, was convincingly demonstrated by its role in In 2008, a grant was awarded to the National for an exhibition inspired by the London 2012 the production of a series of publications, One grant (2008) Archives to produce a detailed catalogue of a Olympic and Paralympic Games showcasing including some in peer-reviewed journals. Total: £96 454 collection of Admiralty records (ADM101) historic and current work at the LSHTM. Making this rich and important resource easily comprising Royal Navy medical officers’ available online has brought it to the attention journals dating from 1793 to 1880. The journals A collection that complements this and many of historians of the hospital and of British were compiled by Royal Navy surgeons serving other collections held by the LSHTM is its map social policy, and to urban and local historians. on HM ships, in hospitals, in naval brigades, in collection, which was the subject of a grant in The database was also linked to the Wellcome shore parties and on emigrant and convict 2005. Maps in the collection date from 1900 Library–National Archives Hospital Records ships during this time. Medical officers serving to 1960 and were used by the LSHTM in Database (www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ in the Royal Navy were required to submit planning expeditions overseas, in the spatial hospitalrecords), so users searching for online detailed records of the health, treatment and investigation of tropical diseases, in recording information about hospital records can easily survival rates of their charges, resulting in a research results and in prevention programmes. access statistics through this site. journal collection that exhibits a completeness, The importance of the maps lies first in the fact consistency and coherence unlikely to exist that the diseases and the areas they cover – Most recently, in 2008, funding was awarded elsewhere for this period. mostly malaria and sleeping sickness in Africa for the cataloguing and preservation of the – remain a major focus of public health concern LSHTM Nutrition collection. This rich and Considering the unique nature of the today. Second, these maps contribute to the varied resource consists of historical records collection, it had been under-used by growing research interest in the history of relating to scientific investigations carried out researchers, but this project opened up the medical cartography. A key gap has existed in by LSHTM staff in the UK and colonial collection by creating fully searchable this literature between the 19th and mid-20th territories between the 1920s and 1950s. The material, accessible via the National Archives centuries, which this collection (with the collection includes dietary survey material, electronic catalogue. Medical historians can majority of its contents relating to 1900–1930) research in applied nutrition, documents now define and pursue individual and joint addresses. The maps provide vital insight into relating to nutrition in internment camps lines of enquiry, test hypotheses, and explore mutiny, arrests and courts martial. One journal the early development of disease eradication during World War II and Professor Philip the awareness, spread and practical application in the collection even features a surgeon programmes and, used in conjunction with Payne’s work on protein requirements. of the findings and theories of the period’s great admitting that his ship, the Dido, was other documentary collections in the LSHTM’s Information on the project was disseminated to health reformers in ways that were not responsible for bringing and spreading the archive, they further the understanding of the medical history community through previously possible. measles epidemic to Fiji – an epidemic that planning and fieldwork in the period shortly articles in relevant publications, killed nearly a third of Fiji’s population. after scientific breakthroughs in the aetiology announcements on email lists and the In addition to uncovering the expected Another journal is written by surgeon Robert of malaria and sleeping sickness. mounting of an exhibition at the LSHTM. material relating to the Royal Navy, convict and McCormick, the same McCormick who Catalogue records describing the collection can emigrant ships, and information on diseases, travelled on the Beagle with Charles Darwin. Following these projects, two further grants be viewed via the LSHTM website. patients, injuries, treatments and living These highlights, along with historical and were awarded to the LSHTM. The first, in conditions on board, cataloguing also revealed contextual information, can be found on a 2008, was to prepare and implement web Online some unexpected ‘bonus’ material in the dynamic website created by the National access for an existing database of British www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/archives/ journals. This included watercolour Archives as part of the project. voluntary hospital statistics from the period Olympic exhibition illustrations, hand-drawn maps, charts showing preceding the establishment of the NHS (from www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/olympics/showcase_ details of the climate, and a myriad of eccentric The digitisation of these files was part of the 1891 to 1947). The database includes sources of exhibition.html cures for diseases and strange ailments Archive Awareness Campaign’s latest income and areas of expenditure, numbers of encountered. The records also contain details nationwide theme, ‘Discovery – Archives in about vessel layouts, countries visited and Science, Technology and Medicine’. Details of people met. scientific exhibitions, open days and talks across the country organised by the Campaign Researchers can easily search by the name of can be found at www.archiveawareness.com. the medical officer, the patient or the ship, or even by disease or ailment, to uncover a variety Online of colourful tales of 18th- and 19th-century ship ‘Surgeons at Sea’ archive (with highlights guide) life, from drunken rum-related incidents, www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/surgeonsatsea/ venereal disease, scurvy, shark bites and Archive Awareness Campaign tarantulas to lightning strikes, gun fights, www.archiveawareness.com

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Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Royal College of Physicians Nineteenth-century documentary sources for materia medica of London at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: a pilot study of quinine Cataloguing the institutional archives and donated holdings of the The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew received a Royal College of Physicians Grant number: small grant in 2006 for a pilot study of quinine, GR080114 based on 19th-century documentary sources and In 2001, Research Resources in Medical History Amount awarded: bark specimens in its collections. The project Grant number: supported the creation of an online catalogue of £11 433 focused on cross-referencing specimens and GR070829 the institutional archives and donated holdings written materials contained in the archive Amount awarded: of the Royal College of Physicians of London, to develop a methodology that could be applied £23 300 providing global access to the collections for the to other materia medica and text collections at first time. A printed catalogue in the reading Kew. Relevant research resources were surveyed room was the sole means of finding information in the first phase, followed by the discovery on the College collections up to this point. The and recording of connections between texts archive includes: the watercolour anatomical and/or specimens. drawings of Richard Bright (1822–1839); the journals of Sir James Clark, which detail his Contact holidays accompanying Queen Victoria and her Royal Botanic Gardens Kew family (1847–1868); the case books of John Snow, 26 West Park Road detailing his administration of chloroform to Richmond patients, including Queen Victoria; and the Contact Surrey TW9 4DA professional and personal papers of the Royal College of Physicians T +44 (0)20 8332 5000 controversial physiologist Charles Edward 11 St Andrews Place www.kew.org Brown-Sequard. Regents Park London NW1 4LE The role of women in the history of medicine is www.rcplondon.ac.uk/resources/library also represented in the holdings, which include 17th- and 18th-century receipt books, the letters Royal College of Martha Beatrice Webb (1903–1909), and the scrapbook of health visitor Helen C Brooke of Nursing (1919–1947).

Digitisation and online publication of historic nursing journals Royal College of Psychiatrists The Royal College of Nursing was awarded a Grant number: grant in 2002 to digitise The Nursing Record/ Conservation of antiquarian books and archives of the Royal College of Psychiatrists • GR070833 British Journal of Nursing 1888–1956, one of the A condition assessment of the library collection of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Amount awarded: earliest nursing journals, which is now freely Contact £41 847 available online. As a partner to the history of The Royal College of Nursing Grants were awarded in 2002 and 2008 for the Contact medicine, the history of nursing plays an 20 Cavendish Square Grant number: conservation and assessment of fragile and Library and Information Services important part in establishing a broader view of London W1G 0RN GR070838 damaged items from the College’s collection of Royal College of Psychiatrists a ‘history of health’. The journal provides a T +44 (0)20 7409 3333 Amount awarded: antiquarian books, dissertations and archives. 17 Belgrave Square primary source for information on the www.rcn.org.uk/development/rcn_archives/ £10 081 London SW1X 8PG

development of nursing as a profession, for the historical_nursing_journals Grant number: T +44 (0)20 7235 2351 study of inter-professional relations and for a GR085815 www.rcpsych.ac.uk/archiveslists.aspx wide variety of interdisciplinary research. Amount awarded: £1500

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Staff in the RCSE library and archives can now exhibition in 2007 and several articles in issues Royal College of provide more detailed and accurate of Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of information in response to enquiries, which England between 2008 and 2010. Surgeons of has led to a notable increase in use by researchers. Overall, there has been a near- As a result of cataloguing, direct links have complete cataloguing of the unique collections, been established between items in the library, England which (alongside conservation work) has archive and museum collections. This has led ensured the future of a large portion of the to increased collaboration between the RCSE Six grants were awarded to the Royal College library’s collection, as well as improving access. library and Hunterian Museum, further Six grants of Surgeons of England (RCSE) between 2001 (2001–2009) The projects were publicised through a enhancing the research potential and and 2009 to support the cataloguing of tracts Total: £329 128 conference organised in conjunction with the understanding of dispersed collection items. and pamphlets and the cataloguing and Royal Society of Medicine and the Wellcome conservation of the RCSE library’s manuscripts, Trust, entitled ‘Exploring Medical History: Online in addition to printed collections in the history What’s happening in libraries and archives’, RCSE online catalogue of medicine and science. and other events, including a dental surgery adlib.rcseng.ac.uk Work began in 2001 with the cataloguing of the library’s tracts and pamphlets covering areas of medicine relating to epidemics, vaccination, therapeutics and natural history. Although most of the items date from the 18th century to the 20th, the collection ranges from 1517 to 1937. The medical pamphlets are primarily 19th damaged items were identified for future Royal Free Hospital and early 20th century. The collection is rich in conservation work. Conservation of the Royal Free Hospital case notes • Boxing the minute ‘grey literature’, such as individual case reports books of the Royal Free Hospital and London (Royal Free) School of reprinted from periodicals, addresses to The cataloguing of RCSE manuscripts took Medicine for Women • Purchase of a microfilm reader for the Royal Free medical societies and annual reports, some of place in 2002 and was followed by a further Hospital Archives Reading Room which are unique. grant in 2005 to improve access through conservation. The collection includes lecture Fifty per cent of the library’s total material was notes (now arranged by student, not lecturer), catalogued, which resulted in an increase in use diaries, case books, correspondence and of more than 100 per cent over two years. In research papers relating to surgery, natural In 2003, the Royal Free Hospital received a grant reader to provide access to the remaining case 2003, a second grant was awarded to complete history and public health. Included are the Grant number: to conserve 285 volumes of historic case notes notes, which had been microfilmed the cataloguing. The collection is rich in: papers of seminal figures and societies in the GR073895 spanning a period of almost 50 years from 1890 at an earlier date. material for research into the origins of history of British surgery. Most notable are the Amount awarded: to 1938. The case notes provide a fascinating anaesthesia, antisepsis, microbiology, forensic papers of John Hunter, William Hunter, the £35 025 insight into the work of approximately 30 Contact medicine, demography and epidemiology; Hunter-Baillie family, John Abernethy, Sir Grant number: consultants, including several pioneering Royal Free Hospital Archives Centre information on the reform of the medical and Astley Cooper, William Clift and Sir Richard GR085409 medical women. Subject areas include medicine, The Hoo dental professions, military medicine and the Owen. Extracts from ‘Lives of the Fellows of Amount awarded: surgery, anaesthetics, obstetrics and 17 Lyndhurst Gardens development of surgical techniques; and items the RCSE’ (not available online) were scanned £3500 gynaecology, and the majority of volumes are London NW3 5NU covering the history of public health and social to provide biographical information, and Grant number: indexed by patient name and diagnosis. Further T +44 (0)20 7794 0692 reform, including pamphlets on sanitation and in some cases the contextual environment GR090681 grants awarded in 2007 and 2009 provided www.royalfree.nhs.uk/default.aspx?top_nav_ sewerage, workhouse hospitals and Contagious of material has been explored to enrich Amount awarded: preservation boxing of the Royal Free collection id=3&sel_left_nav=34&tab_id=125 Diseases Acts. The collection also includes 500 the catalogue. £7216 of minute books and the purchase of a microfilm dissertations on physiology and pharmacology from the Imperial Medical Academy of St Further grants were awarded for a two-stage Petersburg (1884–1891) and several groups of project, ‘Securing the Legacy of British Surgical tracts assembled by interested doctors, such as History’, to preserve and catalogue the library’s William Bulloch on haemophilia, Arthur printed collection, 12 per cent of which is Maude on Grave’s disease and John Tweedy on unique to the library. The first, in 2006, covered ophthalmology. These 2844 volumes are now the 19th-century collection. The second, in easily accessible to researchers. 2009, completed the 18th and pre-17th century. The project as a whole illuminates the work Although the production of an online catalogue and collections of John Hunter (1728–1793) remained the main focus of the project, and his predecessors, contemporaries preservation also played a part, and fragile or and successors.

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The Royal Society Senate House Library, University of London

Cataloguing the 20th-century medical and physiological papers of the Royal Society British Postgraduate Medical Foundation archive: enabling access through appraisal, cataloguing and preservation • Cataloguing the British Psychological Society’s history of psychology collection • Cataloguing the papers of Eric Dingwall Papers central to this project included the concerning the production of acetone for Grant number: personal papers of J H Gaddum FRS (1900–1965), munitions, a letter from Herbert Hoover on A grant awarded in 2007 supported a project to A third grant, awarded in 2011, is currently GR080112 Otto Loewi FRS (1873–1961) and E G T Liddell supplies to Britain and correspondence with W Grant number: catalogue the archive of the British Postgraduate underway to conserve and catalogue the papers of Amount awarded: FRS (1895–1981). Additional records included the H Beveridge at the Ministry of Food. The papers GR080117 Medical Foundation, established by the Senate of Eric Dingwall (1890–1986). The collection is large £27 438 Royal Society 20th-century medical committee’s offer an invaluable original resource for those Amount awarded: the University of London in 1945. The archive and unorthodox; it contains scrapbooks selection and the papers of the Food and studying the development of nutritional science £35 000 includes directors’ files from the 1940s, records constructed by Dingwall from the remains of Chemistry subcommittees of the Royal Society and the economics of wartime. During the Grant number: relating to funding from the 1950s onwards, existing printed volumes. Dingwall was known as War Committee 1914–1918. Although they are of project, a small cache of letters by the GR084054 annual reports, and papers of the Central an anthropologist, author and librarian, and as interest to historians of medicine, the strong physiologist Henry Bancroft FRS (1904–1998) Amount awarded: Academic Council, the Governing Body, the one of the most experienced psychical thematic links between the five sets of papers was discovered, and these were also made £6029 Executive Committee, the Finance and General investigators of modern times. also suggest a wider scholarly appeal; they deal available for research. Purposes Committee, the Audit Committee, the Grant number: with tropical disease control and Special Purposes Committee and the Education Contact GR096821 Commonwealth food production, for example. Contact Committee. Papers relating to the Institute of Senate House Library Amount awarded: They also illustrate the impact of war on the The Royal Society Library £86 966 Child Health, the Institute of Cancer Research, Malet Street general public in the years 1914–1918. The project 6–9 Carlton House Terrace the Institute of Neurology, the Institute of London WC1E 7HU created more than 10 000 new catalogue entries, London SW1Y 5AG Ophthalmology and the Institute of Psychiatry T +44 (0)20 7862 8500 unearthing particularly interesting discoveries T +44 (0)20 7451 2500 are included. Further papers relate to the National www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_ such as the letters of Chaim Weizmann royalsociety.org/library/collections/ Heart and Lung Institute and the Hunterian id=8572&inst_id=14 Institute. The archive also includes files of the www.ull.ac.uk/specialcollections/archives/ British Postgraduate Medical Foundation archivespsychicsources.shtml directors, secretary and financial officer.

Additional funding was awarded in 2007 to Royal Society of Medicine catalogue the history of psychology collection of the British Psychological Society, which is held Retrospective conversion of the Royal Society of Medicine rare books catalogue at Senate House Library.

A grant was awarded to the Royal Society of In 2006, the Research Resources in Medical Grant number: Medicine in 2001 for a project to create machine- History scheme also funded a one-day seminar, GR070830 readable electronic descriptive records for the ‘Exploiting Medical History: A practical Amount awarded: pre-1901 book collection, comprising approach’, at the University of Birmingham. £50 520 approximately 20 000 books and 20 000

Grant number: pamphlets. The tracts, in particular, represent an Contact GR081528 important collection of ‘grey’ literature and were The Royal Society of Medicine Amount awarded: largely unknown before this project because 1 Wimpole Street £3000 access to the collection was only possible by London W1G 0AE means of a single entry on the internal card T +44 (0)20 7290 2900 catalogue in the library. www.rsm.ac.uk/librar/index.php

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St Bartholomew’s Hospital Archives and Museum

St Bartholomew’s Hospital pathological illustrations: accessibility through digitisation and cataloguing • Preservation audit visit for the archives of St Bartholomew’s Hospital • Conservation of two volumes of patient records from the Alexandra Hip Hospital for Children with Hip Disease • Conserving the records of the Alexandra Hip Hospital for Children with Hip Disease

Four Research Resources in Medical History Children with Hip Disease, in preparation for Grant number: grants were awarded to the St Bartholomew’s digitisation and inclusion in the Historic GR084227 Hospital Archives in 2007 and 2008. The first Hospitals Admission Registers Project (HHARP) University College London Amount awarded: project catalogued and conserved a collection of in conjunction with Great Ormond Street Conserving and cataloguing of the rare books collections of the Institute of Orthopaedics Library, the Human Communications £113 981 some 1826 pathological illustrations dating from Hospital and Kingston University. Science Library, and the Institute of Laryngology and Otology Library • Art for medicine’s sake: the restoration of the Carswell c.1845 to 1910. The collection of watercolours Grant number: Drawings Collection • The Sloane Printed Books Project • Conservation assessment of the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology joint and photographs, which were used for teaching Contact GR085084 library • Cataloguing genetics collections at UCL • Assessing the Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgical Hospital archives • and research, illustrate patients treated at St St Bartholomew’s Hospital (‘Barts’) Amount awarded: Cataloguing the Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgical Hospital archives £1450 Bartholomew’s Hospital and anatomical West Smithfield pathological specimens. The collection was also London EC1A 7BE Grant number: digitised, and copies were made available to the www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_ Seven grants awarded to UCL which brings together 20 important GR086000 Wellcome Library. id=13267&inst_id=51 Grant number: Grant number: (University College London) since 2001 genetics collections and more than Amount awarded: GR070837 GR095142 £181 supported projects that – through a 1400 genetics books from the Library Subsequent awards supported a preservation Amount awarded: Amount awarded: combination of cataloguing and and partner institutions. £26 129 £150 937 Grant number: survey of collections and the conservation of conservation – have provided access to GR086951 patient records from the Alexandra Hospital for Grant number: Grant number: a broad range of primary and Contact Amount awarded: GR 076790 GR095275 secondary resources for researchers. UCL Library £28 193 Amount awarded: Amount awarded: These include primary sources relating Wilkins Building £40 000 £10 000 to the development of neurology and Gower Street neurosurgery, unique pathological London WC1E 6BT Grant number: Grant number: drawings and paintings, the dispersed T +44 (0)20 7679 7792 GR082902 GR098092 printed collection of Sir Hans Sloane, a www.ucl.ac.uk/library/main.shtml Amount awarded: Amount awarded: founding collection of the British www.ucl.ac.uk/ion/library/historical £83 844 £82 003 Library, and UCL’s genetics collections. www.ucl.ac.uk/library/special-coll/ Grant number: carswell.shtml GR089223 Key parts of the genetics collections Amount awarded: have been included in the Wellcome £6840 Library’s Foundation of Modern Genetics digital research resource,

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The Women’s Library South East Cataloguing the Josephine Butler Society Archive

The Women’s Library received a grant in 2004 to Grant number: catalogue the archives of the Josephine Butler GR074810 Society (also known as the Association for Moral Amount awarded: and Social Hygiene), which was established in £60 000 1867 in response to concern about prostitution in the UK. The archive is the major source for the study of the ‘hygienic’ or ‘medical’ regulation of prostitution over a period of more than 100 years and includes the personal correspondence of Josephine Butler and 3960 pamphlets published by the society between 1870 and the 1930s. The catalogue is now accessible online to researchers.

Contact The Women’s Library London Metropolitan University 25 Old Castle Street Aldgate London E1 7NT www.londonmet.ac.uk/thewomenslibrary/ aboutthecollections/collections/jos-butler.cfm

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Addenbrooke’s Hospital conserve approximately 3000 papers and bound Wellcome History. An exhibition in the Museum of volumes relating to the history of Broadmoor Reading was visited by more than 20 000 people, Conservation of Addenbrooke’s Hospital case notes (1878–1947) Hospital (previously Broadmoor Special and a talk on Victorian Broadmoor was delivered Institution or Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic to both academic and local history groups. In 2006, a grant was awarded for the of the United Cambridge Hospitals, including Asylum) from its opening in 1863. The archive Grant number: conservation of Addenbrooke’s Hospital patient Mill Road Maternity Hospital (1936–1983), the contains detailed records of buildings, personnel One excellent outcome was the publication of a GR080080 case notes, comprising 900 volumes dating from Hunstanton Home of Recovery (1899–1967) and and patient management, offering a unique free ebook, Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian crime Amount awarded: 1876 to 1947 and encompassing the start of the Brookfields Hospital (1952–1967). insight into the institutional running and care of and the lunatic asylum, which has achieved more £61 336 NHS. The case notes were cleaned, repaired and patients in one of England’s three secure hospitals. than 200 000 downloads to date and in 2011 was rehoused in archival packaging and have Contact in Amazon’s Top 20 downloads list. The subsequently been catalogued. In addition to Box 53 The first phase of work focused on cataloguing popularity of the book, described as “stories from patient records and registers, the archives of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS and preservation measures. Its success led to a the edge of where true crime meets mental Addenbrooke’s Hospital contain minutes and Foundation Trust further deposit of bound volumes containing the illness”, demonstrates the level of public interest accounts of the Trustees of Addenbrooke’s Hills Road files of male patients between 1875 and 1884. in the archive. Hospital, annual accounts and lists of Cambridge CB2 0QQ These had been severely water damaged during subscribers (1767–1862), annual reports (1863– T +44 (0)1223 586737 storage, and a third grant was awarded in 2007 to These projects have substantially improved access present), minutes of the Board of Governors, www.cuh.org.uk/cuh/services/non_clin/archive/ fund an intensive programme of conservation to, and raised awareness of, unique archival Committees and Courts dating from 1766, archive_index.html treatment. Before treatment, the papers were resources in the history of mental health care and photographs and press cuttings, and the archives badly degraded and wholly unusable: every Broadmoor Hospital. Conservation and individual leaf needed to be washed, in-filled and preservation measures, combined with the global lined to make the files fit for production. reach of online catalogues and web-based promotional outputs, will ensure the continued The projects have opened up the collection since availability of the records for current and future their completion in 2012. The records are widely users. used for scholarly research, such as Newcastle Berkshire University’s Wellcome Trust-funded ‘Madness Online and Mortality’ project, and research by family Catalogue Record Office historians. Berkshire Record Office has done www.a2a.org.uk much to promote the archive, including producing articles for publication in Ancestors, Online exhibition The grants awarded to Berkshire Record Family Tree, Family History Monthly, Who Do You www.berkshirerecordoffice.org.uk/albums/ Three grants Office cover two distinct archives. (2004–2007) Think You Are?, The Ephemerist, HerStoria and fair-mile-hospital Total: £224 351 2004 saw the beginning of a six-month project to catalogue and conserve the archive of Fair Mile Hospital (previously Berkshire County Asylum and Mental Hospital). The archive covers 19th- century provision of mental health care, as well as Cambridgeshire the development and history of the asylum and its gardens. Fair Mile was the first NHS day care Archives community, and the archive contains staff records and full patient records from its opening in 1870 Cambridgeshire Archives received a grant in to 1948, which saw its transition to the NHS under One grant (2002) 2002 to undertake the cataloguing, Dr David Duncan. The case notes contain daily Total: £63 985 preservation and selective digitisation of the observation records, reports of activities and archives of the Papworth Village Settlement, responses of patients, and insights into their stability and easy access to the records, which can the personal and professional papers of Sir motives and those of the physicians treating them. be seen at www.a2a.org.uk. Pendrill Varrier-Jones, and the case notes of In addition to the medical history merit of the Papworth Hospital. Together, these provide a collection, the material also contains evidence of The collection has been used to create an online remarkable record of a leading institution in the business-like nature of the asylum and its gallery and produce articles on the hospital’s the history of the suppression of tuberculosis interaction with the local community. history for two local history journals and the in high-income countries and the redirection Wellcome History newsletter. of these resources towards the rehabilitation Much of the archive had been badly damaged by and training of the physically disabled. damp, and the grant enabled the conservation Work undertaken on the Fair Mile archive laid the team to undertake extensive remedial work on it foundations for a major project, funded in two The Papworth Village Settlement – or before cataloguing took place, ensuring long-term stages by the Wellcome Trust, to catalogue and Cambridgeshire Tuberculosis Colony, as it was

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formerly known – was established by Sir Pendrill profession and voluntary organisations; and the collaboration with Professor Steptoe, was The award also covered a similar project to assess Varrier-Jones in 1915. His personal papers shed development of holistic sociomedical treatment brought into clinical use. Other papers in the the condition and content of the papers of light on his role as governor of Papworth and his of disease – the recognition of the importance of collection address the ethical issues surrounding Professor Sir Aaron Klug, whose papers were later roles as a director of several kindred supporting patients beyond curing them. the research and the wider picture in which the donated to Churchill Archives Centre in 2011. institutions, whose governing bodies turned to work took place: these include an early rejection Klug, a British chemist and biophysicist, was him for advice in light of Papworth’s success. The project improved access by providing for funding from the Medical Research Council, awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for web-accessible archival descriptions of the the establishment of the research centre in his development of crystallographic electron Papworth was the foremost settlement of its collections, making important documents and Cambridge, opposition from the Pope, and the microscopy and his structural elucidation of time and became the leading centre in the illustrations available digitally (including on the debates in the Houses of Parliament on biologically important nucleic acid–protein treatment and rehabilitation of patients with internet) and encouraging the educational use necessary changes to the law in light of the complexes. The uncatalogued archive, consisting tuberculosis, the most widespread and of the archive at all levels to improve research and its potential outcomes. of some 200 archive boxes, may be the subject of intractable health problem of 19th- and early- understanding. The Record Office has also a future application to the Research Resources in 20th-century Britain. Many of Britain’s modern improved understanding of the collections by These papers provide access to the story of the Medical History grant scheme. concepts of rehabilitation of the disabled and seeking out documents in official and private pioneering research conducted by the man surgical intervention in heart disease grew out hands, gaining contextual information from deemed ‘the father of IVF’, but they also Online of this institution as it evolved to become the those who have worked or lived at Papworth, demonstrate the attitudes of the wider world and Information on the Sir Aaron Klug Project Papworth Trust and Papworth Hospital. It is an and establishing an oral history archive based the changes it had to make to its thinking and www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/news-and-events/ evolution that has left an extensive legacy of on interviews. laws to accommodate this scientific development. lmb-news/news-archive-2011/nobel-laureate- papers, publications, photographs and cine film A small grant enabled a detailed survey of the sir-aaron-klug-donates-his-archives-to- that record the experiences of those who have With the exception of the hospital case notes, material to be compiled after its transfer to churchill-archives-centre lived through and been involved in these the catalogue is accessible online, and Churchill Archives Centre, where it can be used developments. Papworth Hospital is renowned Cambridgeshire Archives continues to source and by the research community. for work in the treatment of heart disease and, include documentary surveys and oral history in particular, its pioneering transplant surgery. work to develop the existing archival record. The patient case files from the hospital, which date from 1922, also document healthcare As a result of this project, a second tranche of during the earliest period of the NHS. material was transferred from Papworth to Cambridgeshire archives, which currently Together, these collections shed light on an remains uncatalogued. immense variety of subjects, including: the East Sussex Record Office history of scientific research into tuberculosis Online Beyond the borderline of mental health: creating access to the archive of the Lady Chichester Hospital, Hove, 1905–1987, and heart disease from an epidemiological and Information on the Papworth Archive through a programme of conservation and listing social perspective; how society has coped with www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/leisure/archives/ chronic illness and disability; the roles of central projects/papworth government, local authorities, the medical In 2005 a grant was awarded to the East Sussex Contact Grant number: Record Office to conserve and catalogue the East Sussex Record Office GR077435 historical records of the Lady Chichester The Maltings Amount awarded: £48 401 Hospital, Hove (1905–1987), which treated Castle Precincts nervous disorders in women and children. The Lewes BN7 1YT records offer great diversity, reflecting the work T +44 (0)1273 482349 awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or of the founder, Dr Helen Boyle, who was among www.eastsussex.gov.uk/leisureandtourism/ Medicine for his research. Churchill College the first to promote the benefits of separating localandfamilyhistory/esro/default.htm people with recoverable conditions from the Although Professor Edwards has kept certain Cambridge chronically ill. papers and others remain at the Bourn Hall Clinic, a substantial deposit of papers, Churchill Archives Centre received a grant newspaper cuttings, photographs, photo albums One grant (2010) from the Research Resources in Medical and audio Dictaphone tapes dated between the Total: £13 000 History programme in 2010 to assess the 1960s and 2006 was transferred from his home condition and content of the recently to the Churchill Archives Centre in 2010. deposited papers of Nobel Prize winner Professor Robert Edwards, who conducted Edwards’s work on fertilisation began in 1955 pioneering work at Cambridge University in and the period covered by the deposited papers the development of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) incorporates the most successful years of his and preimplantation genetic diagnosis, career, highlighting the scientific developments established the Bourn Hall Clinic for fertility as this ground-breaking research, in treatment with Patrick Steptoe, and was

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John Innes Research Centre Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead

The historical collections at the John Innes Centre: improving access and usage Survey of the archival holdings of Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead

In 2010, a grant was awarded in support of a Queen Victoria Hospital holds archives relating long-term care of the documents. The archives Grant number: project to catalogue and conserve the archives Grant number: to the work of the pioneering plastic surgeon include administrative records, operations GR093741 and historic library collection of the John Innes GR090804 Archibald McIndoe and the Blond McIndoe registers, case notes documenting the treatment Amount awarded: Research Centre. The project focused on Amount awarded: Burns Unit, including the patient casenotes of of service personnel from 1939 to 1948 and several £101 116 improving access to key resources in the History £11 000 ‘the Guinea Pig Club’, a group of injured RAF files relating to McIndoe. Further information of Genetics Library and Archives, particularly the servicemen whose burns were treated using about the archives will be made available as the collections of two key figures in the early history McIndoe’s experimental plastic surgery project develops. For up-to-date information, of genetics, William Bateson and Cyril Dean techniques. The club, which started in 1941 with please contact the hospital. Darlington. The collections include 39 convalescent members, had 649 members by correspondence, photographs, 630 scientific the end of World War II as a result of increased Contact notebooks, the papers of C D Darlington and bombing raids over both Britain and Germany. Queen Victoria Hospital Harold Woolhouse, the archives of the Nitrogen Holtye Road Fixation Laboratory, and Bateson’s private library, In 2009, a Research Resources in Medical History East Grinstead which contains many annotated volumes. grant supported an independent assessment of West Sussex RH19 3DZ the archives to provide recommendations for the www.qvh.nhs.uk/about_us/our_heritage.php Contact John Innes Centre Norwich Research Park Norwich NR4 7UH T +44 (0)1603 450000 www.jic.ac.uk/corporate/services-and-products/ Royal Army Medical Services Museum library/historical-collections.htm Assessment and listing of the Royal Army Medical Corps archives

A grant was awarded to support an assessment of Contact Grant number: the Royal Army Medical Corps archives held by Keogh Barracks GR089129 the museum, to determine the cataloguing and Mytchett Place Road Amount awarded: conservation needs of the documents. As a result, Aldershot GU16 6DD Kent Arts and Libraries: Dartford Library £17 057 top-level descriptions have been produced, and www.ams-museum.org.uk/museum/research/ Preservation of mental health archives at Dartford Library collections may be viewed on request by appointment. In 2001, a small grant was awarded to Dartford Contact Grant number: Library to bind, clean and repair 52 volumes of Centre for Kentish Studies GR070927 printed minutes of the Metropolitan Asylums Sessions House Amount awarded: Board. This proved to be the starting point for a County Hall £2780 larger project, and the volumes provide valuable Maidstone information on the administration of mental Kent ME14 1XQ hospitals in the Dartford area in the Victorian T +44 (0)1622 694363 period. www.kentarchives.org.uk/Calmview/

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University of Oxford and the Bodleian Library

The University of Oxford has received five diaries that give an insight into her social Five grants grants from the Research Resources in Medical world, and it is of interest in both the history of (2010–2011) History programme to aid projects across the genetics and the study of women in science. Total: £334 731 Bodleian Library, College archives and the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and After an initial phase of sorting and discarding Genetics. duplicates, work began on box listing before 1000 boxes were transferred to the Bodleian’s In 2010 and 2011, grants were awarded to the purpose-built storage facility in Swindon. The Bodleian Library to appraise, sort and scoping phase to assess the scale of the project Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton catalogue the papers of Sir Walter Bodmer and suggests that, once sorted, the archive will Julia Gwynaeth, Lady Bodmer. This collection comprise around 750 000 individual documents, The Royal Pavilion as a hospital for wounded Indian soldiers: digitising the photographic records adds to a growing body of research material in addition to southern blot tests on filter paper, made available under the Trust’s strategic medical X-rays on acetate negative sheet film, challenge area of developing sources around disks, photographs, slides and notebooks. The Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton, Contact the foundations of modern genetics. Grant number: received a small grant in 2008 to digitise a 4/5 Pavilion Buildings Queen’s College received a grant in 2002 to GR087627 collection of historic photographs depicting the Brighton BN1 1EE Bodmer’s career has covered major catalogue and conserve the manuscript and Amount awarded: Royal Pavilion during its use as a military T +44 (0)3000 290900 advancements in the field of cancer genetics – printed book collections of Sir John Floyer £8000 hospital for wounded Indian soldiers from 1914 www.brighton-hove-rpml.org.uk/ in which he is a leading international expert – (1649–1734) and Theophilus Metcalfe (1690– to 1916. The project also included the digitisation HistoryAndCollections/collectionsthemes/ from developments in linkage (1950s and 1960s) 1757). Floyer published widely during his life and of a rare periodical, the Brighton and South Sussex pavilionindianhospitalartphotography/Pages/ to the mapping of human chromosomes (1980s is best known for his research into the properties Graphic, which features photomechanical images pavilionindianhospitalartphotographs.aspx to 2000s). Beyond genetics and biomedicine, of cold bathing, his work on asthma and his of the wounded Indian soldiers and the his interest and influence spread to policy pioneering work developing a pulse watch. The converted palace, and detailed descriptions of making and campaigning on scientific issues. collection includes printed copies of his own the conditions in which they were treated. He wrote a report for The Royal Society on the writings, books from his library and public understanding of science, which is manuscripts, which include Advice to a Young regarded as the catalyst for cultural change in Physician, written to his infant grandson. scientists’ relationship with the public and is a Metcalfe’s collection, which is more academic in key document in the study of the public character than Floyer’s, is diverse and includes Surrey History Centre understanding of science and how it has chemical and alchemical works as well as changed. In addition, he was leader of the medicine. It is particularly strong in Cataloguing the archive of the Brookwood Mental Hospital Wellcome Trust-funded £2.3-million project gynaecology. The project resulted in enhanced ‘The People of the British Isles’, which access to both of these important collections via examined the genetic make-up of the UK a state-of-the-art online catalogue and a range A grant was awarded in 2002 to produce an The catalogue, which has unlocked the source population. The archive is of great importance of preservation and conservation treatments. Grant number: integrated and comprehensive catalogue of for medical, social and local historians, is to researchers in genetics, the history of GR070839 records relating to the Brookwood Hospital in available online under the reference ‘3043’. medicine, the philosophy of science and During the course of the project, Queen’s Amount awarded: Woking. The hospital, which was established in scientific policy. College recruited expert conservators from the £16 862 1867 as the second County Asylum, served as an Contact Oxford Conservation Consortium to carry out emergency war hospital during World War II. Surrey History Centre With the exception of his period of service as work. Subsequently, the Consortium Ninety archive boxes, 70 large cartons and 673 130 Goldsworth Road Principal of Hertford College, Oxford, and his successfully applied for Research Resources in freestanding volumes contain detailed case Woking current work, the collection documents the Medical History funding in 2006 for a project books to 1921, admission and discharge registers Surrey GU21 6ND whole span of Sir Walter’s career and that of his to conserve the early printed medical to 1988, medical and death registers, post- T +44 (0)1483 518737 wife, Lady Bodmer. collections of Magdalen and Merton Colleges mortem registers, and treatment registers. The E [email protected] and promote them within the academic archive also includes records of the internal www.surreycc.gov.uk/recreation-heritage-and- The papers of Lady Bodmer have value both community. These collections, which were staffing and administration of the hospital and culture/archives-and-history/surrey-history- because she collaborated with her husband and established around the donated libraries of documents on the functioning of the institution centre/highlights-of-our-holdings-at-surrey- because she was a distinguished researcher in physicians and medical scholars who were as a self-contained community with workshops, history-centre/brookwood-hospital-woking her own right. The collection includes scientific linked to the two colleges, reflect the state of a farm and a full programme of entertainments. notes detailing her research and personal medical knowledge and practice during the

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16th, 17th and 18th centuries. They include winning work on spinal reflexes and inhibition. South West several unique manuscripts and rare printed His collection contains examples of a lifetime texts, but they are of particular significance of work understanding the central nervous because many of the texts contain the system, including slides related to original annotations of their original owners, providing breakthroughs such as cortical localisation in further evidence of the views and opinions of the brain. The Le Gros Clark collection had not early scholars and practitioners. The broad been examined in detail before the project disciplinary range of researchers using the began but holds brain sections that might be annotated volumes confirms their importance linked to his topological mapping of the main as distinct from the editions to be found at the sensory areas of the cerebral cortex and other British Library or Wellcome Library. neurological discoveries.

A one-day conference entitled ‘Medical History The slides are of a very high quality and some in Oxford College Libraries’ included an contain invaluable material from rare species exhibition of collection items and exposed and clinical cases. Making these collections researchers from several disciplines and career available will be of great value for a wide stages to the medical history resources at spectrum of uses, from historical research into Magdalen and Merton for the first time. The the basis of our modern understanding of the conference also included detailed evidence of brain and central nervous system to pathology the complex treatments and techniques and neuroanatomical teaching. The Federation developed by Oxford Conservation Consortium of European Neuroscience Societies has already conservators to stabilise and repair the expressed an interest in the Sherrington collection items, which will be used to inform collection with a project grant to begin the best practice for future conservation projects process of digitisation once the cataloguing and further the practical understanding of is complete. historic book structures and bindings. The outcome of the project is a publicly In 2011, a project began at the Department of accessible online repository of historical slides, Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, held in the seen by the University as the starting point for Le Gros Clark Building at the University of developing a methodology that can be applied Oxford, to catalogue the slides and supporting to other Oxford slide collections in the future. documentation of Sherrington and Le Gros Clark, both of whom contributed greatly to Online our understanding of the brain and central Oxford University Wellcome Unit for the nervous system. History of Medicine www.wuhmo.ox.ac.uk/links/index.htm Sherrington is perhaps best known for coining Online repository of historical slides the term ‘synapse’ and for his Nobel Prize- learntech.imsu.ox.ac.uk/historyofmedsci/

West Sussex Record Office

Condition survey of the photographic material in the patient records of the Graylingwell Mental Hospital archive, Chichester

Fifty-five volumes of detailed case books relating Contact Grant number: to male patients from 1897 to 1925 contained West Sussex Record Office GR072153 photographic images of each patient, which 3 Orchard Street Amount awarded: were badly degrading in the volumes. The survey Chichester £2000 was carried out in order to establish the West Sussex PO19 1D conservation needs of the collection before www.westsussex.gov.uk/leisure/explore_west_ developing a further funding application. sussex/record_office_and_archives.aspx

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Bristol University Library and Archives Cornwall Record Office Cataloguing of the 19th- and 20th-century archive of mental health care in Cornwall Condition and content survey of the ALSPAC archives

A grant was awarded to Bristol University Contact A grant awarded in 2002 funded the production Contact Grant number: Library and Archives to survey the archives Special Collections Grant number: of a fully integrated catalogue for the archive of Cornwall Record Office GR096605 generated over time by the Avon Longitudinal Arts and Social Sciences Library GR071014 St Lawrence’s Hospital, Bodmin (formerly the Old County Hall Amount awarded: Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), which University of Bristol Amount awarded: County Lunatic Asylum), which was transferred Truro £24 959 were dispersed across several locations around Tyndall Avenue £15 170 to the Cornwall Record Office in 2001. The Cornwall TR1 3AY the UK. Although some were reunited and Bristol BS8 1TJ records cover the period 1815–1991. A full T +44 (0)1872 323127 deposited in the University Archives, it will take T +44 (0)117 928 8014 administrative and custodial history was www.cornwall.gov.uk/default. time for all the relevant records to be collected www.bristol.ac.uk/alspac/ compiled at collection level, and further details aspx?page=14665#Hospitals and deposited for use by researchers. www.bris.ac.uk/library/resources/ were supplied at series level. Damaged records www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records. specialcollections/archives/ were repaired and the collection was packaged to aspx?cat=021-x97&cid=0&kw=st%20 archival standards. lawrence%20hospital%20bodmin#0

The Cochrane Collaboration Devon Record Office

Identifying and preserving the paper and electronic records of the Cochrane Collaboration – a scoping study of a distributed, Cataloguing and conservation of Exeter regional mental health records: retrieving and preserving modern mental not-for-profit, healthcare knowledge organisation health records – a project to sort, appraise, conserve and catalogue Exe Vale Hospital files for research purposes

In 2007, Research Resources in Medical History the future, was submitted to the Steering Group Following an earlier pilot project, a grant was repaired and repackaged, and remaining records Grant number: funding supported a scoping study of records of the Cochrane Collaboration in 2008. Grant number: awarded to the Devon Record Office in 2008 to were confidentially destroyed. The project also GR082797 generated by the Cochrane Collaboration, an GR085857 catalogue 10 000 patient files from the Exe Vale aimed to develop a reliable sampling method for Amount awarded: international organisation that produces In addition, records of work that led to the setting Amount awarded: Hospital (Wonford House, Exminster, and Digby use by health service records managers as a way £22 544 systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare up of the Collaboration now form part of a new £46 191 Hospitals) in collaboration with researchers at the of streamlining the passage of selected records interventions and occupies a unique position in archive based at Cardiff University – the Centre Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter. for future use. the science of evaluation in healthcare. The for the History of Evaluation in Health Care. survey of its early records highlighted the need The resulting database formed part of a research Contact to preserve important documents that reveal its Online project at Exeter entitled ‘Mental Illness and Great Moor House origins and development. As a result, a proposal www.thecochranelibrary.com Returning Patient Care in the Early National Bittern Road recommending that an Archiving Working Party www.cardiff.ac.uk/insrv/libraries/scolar/special/ Health Service: A comparative study of the Sowton be set up to devise guidelines for the whole science/chehc.html admission and treatment of multiple-entry Exeter EX2 7NL organisation, thus preserving vital records for patients in English mental hospitals, c.1948– www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records. 1970’. The database also informed the selection aspx?cat=027-3992f&cid=0#0 of files for permanent retention at the Devon www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records. Record Office, based on an assessment of their aspx?cat=027-3769a&cid=0#0 research value by researchers and staff from the www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records. record office. Retained records were cleaned, aspx?cat=027-4034a&cid=0#0

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National Cataloguing Unit for the Midlands Archives of Contemporary Scientists

Cataloguing the archive of César Milstein • Cataloguing the papers of Sir Joseph Rotblat • Cataloguing the papers of Professor Malcolm Ferguson-Smith • Cataloguing the papers of Professor Bernard Katz • Surveying the archives of medical and human geneticists

Between 2005 and 2008, five grants amounting Online Grant number: to £89 993 were awarded to the National César Milstein catalogue GR076784 Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp? Amount awarded: Contemporary Scientists (NCUACS) to id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FMSTN £18 150 catalogue the papers of several leading scientists, Bernard Katz catalogue Grant number: including Nobel Prize winner César Milstein, archives.ucl.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni= GR080074 before their deposit in archive repositories across Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show. Amount awarded: the UK. Papers catalogued include those of Sir tcl&dsqSearch=RefNo==’KATZ’&dsqDb=Catalog £21 096 Joseph Rotblat FRS, Nobel Prize winner Bernard Malcolm Ferguson-Smith catalogue Katz and Malcolm Ferguson-Smith FRS. A www.gla.ac.uk/services/archives/collections/ Grant number: GR082823 further small grant was awarded to NCUACS to universityarchive/featuredcollections/ Amount awarded: conduct a survey of the archives of UK human historyofmoderngeneticsatglasgow/ £20 542 and medical geneticists, the results of which helped to develop a call for proposals from the Grant number: Research Resources in Medical History scheme GR084176 in 2009/10 under the subject theme ‘foundations Amount awarded: of modern genetics’, which, in turn, assisted the £28 705 Wellcome Library’s major digitisation initiative.

Grant number: GR087447 Amount awarded: £1500

University of Exeter Library

Assessment of Exeter NHS Partnership Trust records in the Devon Record Office • Cataloguing the records of the Royal Western Counties Hospital, Starcross The records generated by the Royal Western Counties hospital index cards relating to three hospitals in the Grant number: Hospital, Starcross, were deposited in the archives of Exe Vale NHS group were examined, including GR070810 the University of Exeter in 1997 in a disordered state. A wartime admissions. The records cover a range of dates Amount awarded: grant was awarded in 2001 to catalogue the collection, from 1870 to the 1970s. £24 353 comprising 113 boxes of records. The collection

Grant number: documents the history of an institution that was Contact GR081752 founded in 1875 and was the first of its kind to focus Devon Record Office Amount awarded: specifically on care for children of the poor with Great Moor House £8823 learning disabilities and associated behavioural Bittern Road problems. Sowton Exeter EX2 7NL A further grant was awarded in 2006 to assess NHS T +44 (0)1392 384253 Partnership Trust records relating to mental health in www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records. the Devon Record Office and develop an effective aspx?cat=027-5916f&cid=-1#-1 sampling methodology for the retention of such www.devon.gov.uk/index/councildemocracy/ records. 10 000 individual patient case files and 30 000 record_office/our_records.htm

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University of Leicester Worcester Cathedral Retrospective cataloguing of the Leicester Medical Society archives Library

In 2002, a grant was awarded to improve access to Contact Preserving Worcester Cathedral’s medical manuscript collections Grant number: the Leicester Medical Association printed book Special Collections GR071039 collection by converting the existing printed University of Leicester Worcester Cathedral was awarded a grant to Amount awarded: catalogue to a machine-readable format, enabling University Library Grant number: preserve its collection of medieval medical £10 000 electronic access to the records for the first time. PO Box 248 GR080422 manuscripts from the Cathedral’s former University Road Amount awarded: Benedictine monastic infirmary and its medieval Leicester LE1 9QD £2000 infirmary parchment rolls, which list details of T +44 (0)116 252 2056 annual income and expenditure. Individual www2.le.ac.uk/library/find/ drop-spine boxes were constructed to rarebooksandarchives/specialcollections/lms accommodate the manuscripts, which are now highlighted on the Cathedral’s website. As a result of the project, a one-day symposium was held to promote medical history collections in Worcestershire and links were established with University of Warwick Library, the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine Modern Records Centre at Oxford University. Contact Worcester Cathedral Cataloguing and preservation of the British Association of Social Workers archive (1970–1995) Chapter Office 8 College Yard The archives of the British Association of Social 1980s. The archive includes minutes, reports, Worcester WR1 2LA Grant number: Workers were catalogued with a Research publications and subject files. T +44 (0)1905 732900 GR084250 Resources in Medical History grant awarded in worcestercathedral.co.uk/Library.php Amount awarded: 2007, enabling remote access to the collection by Contact £69 661 researchers for the first time. The British Modern Records Centre Association of Social Workers collection, University Library comprising 330 boxes of records, reflects many of University of Warwick the major developments in health, medicine, Coventry CV4 7AL social and economic change, and policy making T +44 (0)2476 524219 from 1970 to 1995. It is unique in recording this www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/news/ period of intense activity and offers fresh insight ?newsItem=094d43f6255900ea0125596974d42276 into the reorganisation of the NHS and evidence provided to Parliament on abortion, disability and mental health throughout the 1970s and

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North Borthwick Institute

The Borthwick Institute holds the archives of all well as cataloguing all unlisted material, the Three grants York and district NHS hospitals and the archive project provided interpretative guidance for (2001–2008) of the NHS management bodies for York and researchers through the catalogue and a Total: £143 521 the surrounding area from 1948. The three published guide. The project transformed grants awarded to the Institute include one of access to the archive, resulting in a 50 per cent the first grants awarded by the Research increase in use, and uncovered many previously Resources in Medical History programme, in unknown records. 2001. This first award supported the preservation of the York NHS Trust archive, During the cataloguing project, urgent comprising material dating from 1985 to 2003 preservation and conservation problems relating to Trust administration including present in the collection came to light, and in minutes, board papers, reports and publications. 2008 the Institute embarked on a third The preservation project minimised the effect of Research Resources in Medical History project damage to the collection caused by to address the preservation and conservation unsatisfactory storage in the past and, in doing needs of the most vulnerable and heavily used so, increased access to the collection. items in the archive. Items that were secured to be safely used by medical history researchers In the same year, the Borthwick Institute was include: the case books and admissions, deaths successful in applying for a second Research and discharge registers of patients from the Resources in Medical History programme grant 1790s to the 1960s; 19th-century patients’ to re-catalogue The Retreat archive. The papers, letters and writings; and the 20th- Retreat is historically one of the most century patients’ case notes and important centres for the care and treatment of correspondence files. As a result of these the insane. Founded in 1796 by the Society of awards, patients’ records for the whole of The Friends, the centre pioneered mild methods of Retreat’s history up to the 1960s were fully treatment and influenced the development of catalogued and conserved, thereby opening up care of the insane in this country, the USA and new sources relating to one of the most elsewhere. The Retreat continued to be a influential psychiatric hospitals in the UK for model of good practice through the 19th and researchers in medical history. early 20th centuries and flourished as an independent hospital following its decision not Online to enter the NHS in 1948. The archive held by NHS Trust the Borthwick Institute comprises material www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records. relating to all aspects of The Retreat, including aspx?cat=193-yht&cid=0&kw=nhs trust extensive quantities of administrative, financial, estate, staff and patient records. As

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John Rylands Library, University of Manchester Liverpool Medical Institution Preserving and improving access to the Liverpool Medical Institution Archives Developing access to medical records in Manchester • Archiving clinical radiology in Manchester • Preserving the Liverpool Medical Institution Archives

A grant in 2001 supported a project to produce an 1970s, particularly in the development of In 2001, the Liverpool Medical Institution Cataloguing highlighted an urgent need for Grant number: electronic catalogue of the library’s printed book computed tomography (CT) and magnetic Grant number: received a grant to catalogue and preserve its preservation, and a further grant awarded in GR070819 collections and archives covering the history of resonance imaging (MRI). These papers span the GR070807 archive, creating a machine-readable catalogue of 2005 supported a programme of conservation Amount awarded: medicine. A further award in 2005 focused on range of radiology history and provide an Amount awarded: the collections while cleaning and repackaging and preservation. Additional items have been £64 000 three collections covering the history of radiology, important resource for historians assessing both £48 605 them to archival standards. The collection made accessible as a result of this project,

Grant number: including: the papers of the physicist Derek diagnostic and therapeutic developments. Grant number: includes the personal archives of several Liverpool including 300 glass slides and a collection of GR076832 Guttery (1931–1999), containing material relating GR076803 doctors who were responsible for important approximately 3000 rare or unique 19th-century Amount awarded: to the history of radiology in the UK and Europe; Contact Amount awarded: developments in medicine, such as Hugh Owen medical pamphlets. £34 239 papers relating to the Christie Hospital, The John Rylands Library £36 000 Thomas (the pioneer of orthopaedics), Sir Robert Manchester, amassed by Professor Brian Fox 150 Deansgate Jones (an orthopaedic surgeon) and David Waldie Contact (1929–1999), Deputy Director of the Paterson Manchester M3 3EH (one of the first doctors to use chloroform in Liverpool Medical Institution Institute for Cancer Research from 1984–1993; T +44 (0)1612 753764 general anaesthesia). Also included are the 114 Mount Pleasant and the papers of Professor Ian Isherwood www.library.manchester.ac.uk/searchresources/ archives of the Medical Women’s Federation and Liverpool (b. 1932), containing important material on guidetospecialcollections/atoz/subjectgroups/ the Liverpool Pathology Society, as well as Merseyside L3 5SR innovations in imaging techniques during the medicine/ miscellaneous material that includes letters from T +44 (0)151 709 9125 Florence Nightingale and Edward Jenner and www.lmi.org.uk/LibraryAndArchives/Archives. documents relating to William Henry Duncan’s aspx activities in public health. Lincolnshire Archives

Microfilming hospital case books from the Lincolnshire County Lunatic Asylum • Digitising Lincolnshire County Lunatic Asylum case books Liverpool Record Office A grant in 2002 supported a project to microfilm Cataloguing the archives of hospitals in Liverpool Grant number: the historic Lincolnshire County Lunatic Asylum GR070842 case books as a preservation measure; in 2010, a Amount awarded: further grant was awarded, reflecting the In 2002, a modest grant of £16 000 produced Contact £11 101 growing demand for remote access to the Grant number: catalogue records for researchers of the extensive Temporary address Grant number: material, to digitise the microfilm. As a result of GR070612 unlisted collections relating to hospitals in Unit 33, Wellington Employment Park GR095388 the grant, images of the case books have been Amount awarded: Liverpool. These included records of Liverpool Dunes Way Amount awarded: transferred from 35 mm microfilm to digital £16 000 Dental Hospital, Liverpool Royal Infirmary, Liverpool L5 9RJ £7500 format and are available remotely via the ‘Lincs Liverpool Maternity Hospital, Liverpool Women’s archive.liverpool.gov.uk/dserve.exe to the Past’ website in connection with the Hospital, Newsham General Hospital, Royal existing catalogue entries. By providing digital Liverpool Children’s Hospital, Princes Park images, the project has made research access Hospital, Stanley Hospital, St Paul’s Eye Hospital possible without increasing the risk of damage to and Walton Hospital, as well as nursing archives, the large original volumes. correspondence between Florence Nightingale and William Rathbone, and additional records for Contact Alder Hey. St Rumbold Street Lincoln Lincolnshire LN2 5AB www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/residents/archives/ collections/

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Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Nottinghamshire Archives Pilot survey of the medical history archives at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Scoping survey of the archives of Rampton Hospital

The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine conservator are expected to lead to a further A small scoping project grant in 2010 enabled Grant number: archives remaining in their original home, grant application under the 2012 Research Grant number: staff from Nottinghamshire Archives to identify, GR083053 together with newer deposits, were the subject Resources in Medical History theme of GR095543 locate and survey historic records from Rampton Amount awarded: of a recent Research Resources in Medical ‘combating infectious diseases’. See also the Amount awarded: Hospital, one of three high-security hospitals in £11 350 History-funded scoping survey to establish University of Liverpool entry on page 54. £8182 England. Rampton Hospital records deposited in priorities for maintaining the collections within the Nottinghamshire Archives in 2008 include: the context of internal restructuring, the closure Contact admission, discharge and removal registers and of the medical illustration unit and new Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine indexes; daily numbers books; licences and Information Services management. A very recent Pembroke Place escapees records; continuation of orders books; secure long-term preservation and access. This deposit includes the papers of Brian Maegraith, a Liverpool L3 5QA register of baptism, administration records and project is currently underway. former Dean of the School (1946–1975). Reports www.lstmliverpool.ac.uk/about-lstm/history-of- papers; tribunal records; visitor books; ward produced by the consultant archivist and lstm/lstm-archives/ registers; and patient case papers, 1915–2000. Contact Nottinghamshire Archives The scoping project identified miscellaneous County House records held within the very large complex of Castle Meadow Road the hospital, and a further grant, awarded in Nottingham NG2 1AG 2012, funded the transfer, preservation and www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/learning/history/ cataloguing of these remaining records to archives/

Sheffield Archives

Making health records public: Sheffield and Barnsley’s health and medical records – a cataloguing, conservation and surveying project

This project made a significant amount of material area and led to further deposits, including Trent Grant number: available to the international research community Regional Health Authority minutes, 1974–1996; GR074894 for the first time, substantially improving public Barnsley Primary Care Trust minutes, 2005–2007; Amount awarded: access to information about regional history of Royal Hallamshire Hospital reports, c.1950s; and £64 211 medicine collections by cataloguing more than Nether Edge Hospital admission and discharge 7500 individual items from Sheffield and Barnsley registers and patient report books, 1929–1956. hospitals and other regional health service records. These have been added to the County Collections. The records were uploaded to the A2A database to create a comprehensive catalogue, which is Contact available via the internet. 52 Shoreham Street Sheffield A preservation needs assessment survey was South Yorkshire S1 4SP undertaken and its recommendations were T +44 (0)114 203 9395 followed by the in-house conservation department. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/results.aspx?tab A survey of in situ records was conducted in the =2&Page=1&ContainAllWords=sheffield+hospitals

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Shropshire Archives Scotland

Shropshire Routes to Roots

In 2004, Research Resources in Medical History Contact Grant number: supported the medical history element of the Castle Gates GR074839 ‘Shropshire Routes to Roots’ project, an Shrewsbury Amount awarded: educational initiative providing online access to Shropshire SY1 2AQ £2044 historical documents from around the region via T +44 (0)1743 255350 web-based learning packages. www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk/roots/list_med.htm

Tyne and Wear Archives Service

Access to medical archive resources in Northeast England

Two grants were awarded in 2001 and 2003, predecessors. Each catalogue has an Grant number: resulting in the creation of a web-accessible, introduction that provides a detailed GR070750 collection-level descriptive record for all Tyne administrative history of public health provision Amount awarded: and Wear Archives accessions relating to the within the local authority. £28 250 history of medicine. A substantial proportion of Grant number: these documents were previously inaccessible Contact GR072191 because they were completely unlisted or existed Tyne and Wear Archives Amount awarded: only in a card catalogue. Collections include Discovery Museum £19 902 local authority records relating to the five Blandford Square metropolitan districts that make up Tyne and Newcastle NE1 4JA Wear (Newcastle, Gateshead, South Tyneside, www.twmuseums.org.uk/tyne-and-wear- North Tyneside and Sunderland) and their archives.html

University of Liverpool

Creation of an online finding aid and long-term preservation of materials constituting the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine archive

The archives of the Liverpool School of Tropical See also the Liverpool School of Tropical Grant number: Medicine are central to the history of modern Medicine entry on page 52. GR071012 medical research and the study of the history of Amount awarded: medicine. The larger portion, which contains Contact £61 500 administrative records, records of individual Special Collections and Archives departments, and records of expeditions and Sydney Jones Library research outposts – along with related news The University of Liverpool cuttings, biographical material and portraits of PO Box 123 staff – is held within the University of Liverpool Liverpool L69 3DA Special Collections Department. A grant in 2002 T +44 (0)151 794 2696 supported the creation of an online catalogue of E [email protected] the collections. sca.lib.liv.ac.uk/collections/index.html

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Aberdeen Art Gallery Dundee University Archives and Museum Unlocking the Medicine Chest: Accessing the medical history records of Dundee University archives Assessment of the prescriptions registers in the field of medical humanities This grant, which was awarded in 2001, made a Grant number: significant contribution to a jointly funded Aberdeen Art Gallery holds a complete set of GR070798 Grant number: project to catalogue and preserve the substantial prescription registers of Davidson & Kay Limited, Amount awarded: GR089843 medical history collections held by the an Aberdeen pharmacy business with a history £96 543 University of Dundee. The wide-ranging Amount awarded: reaching back at least to the early 1800s. A Research £33 275 collections include dental, eye and orthopaedic Resources in Medical History grant was awarded to hospital records, asylum records, nursing undertake a full assessment of the collection after archives, pathological drawings, the personal concerns were raised about its physical condition. papers of individuals such as Herbert Watt Conservators from the Book and Paper Torrance (a medical missionary) and Hugh Conservation Studio at Dundee University Stannus Stannus (a specialist in tropical undertook the survey, which has led to medicine), and lecture notes. The subjects preservation measures being put in place to protect covered by the collections include public health, the registers from overuse. Dr Stuart Anderson tropical medicine, epidemiology, medical from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical education, surgery, pathology, dentistry, medical Medicine undertook an in-depth survey of the missionary work, the experience of women in contents of the registers, which identified the medical profession, attitudes to and the microfiches within the collection as unique copies treatment of mental illness, the development of of prescriptions from the beginning of the NHS nursing, philanthropy, hospital management, until 1975, a resource unknown elsewhere in the UK. infectious disease, and industrial disease. A full description of the project, a summary of the Contact collections and a link to the catalogue with Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum digitised images can be accessed online. Schoolhill Aberdeen AB10 1FQ Contact T +44 (0)1224 523700 Archive Services aagm.co.uk/theCollections/objects/object/ University of Dundee Prescription-Register_95376 Dundee DD1 4HN T +44 (0)1382 384095 134.36.1.31/dserve/dserve2/home/home1.html Dumfries and Galloway Council

Content and condition survey of the Crichton Royal Hospital Archives • Cataloguing and conservation of the records of the Crichton Royal Institution Edinburgh In 2010, a small grant was awarded to Dumfries and is the focus of considerable interest from the University Library Grant number: and Galloway Local Studies Library and Archives research community. The cataloguing, which is GR096515 Centre to assess the content and condition of the due to be completed in 2014, will greatly increase Amount awarded: A major Research Resources in Medical History records of the Crichton Royal Hospital archives, access to the collection. Six grants £11 655 grant was awarded to Edinburgh University which had been transferred from the hospital’s (2002–2011) Library under the ‘Foundations of modern commercial storage facility to the local council. As Contact Total: £208 463 Grant number: genetics’ subject theme for ‘Towards Dolly: a result, a further grant was awarded in 2011 to Ewart Library GR096917 Cataloguing and preservation of the archives of catalogue the archives, which contain a wealth of Catherine Street Amount awarded: the Roslin Institute for Animal Genetics’, which £66 837 material relating to mental health care in Dumfries DG1 1JB began in 2011 and is expected to last three Scotland – in particular, a collection of patient art, T +44 (0)1387 260292 years. The project will catalogue, preserve and which has been the subject of published research www.dumgal.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=2297 conserve collections describing the scientific research and human stories that led to

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Edinburgh becoming one of the world centres Conrad Hal Waddington, Dorian Pritchard, of genetics research. Christopher Pennington and Charlotte Auerbach, as well as films focusing on specific The project is based on the library, papers and teaching and research issues. Alongside these slides of the Roslin Institute, best known for are a smaller number of more general films, the cloning of Dolly the sheep in 1996, and the which contextualise Lucey’s work and the records of the Institute of Animal Genetics. broader landscape in which the Institute of The majority of the material covers the period Animal Genetics operated. Some of Lucey’s 1890–2007, shedding light on Edinburgh’s films won international awards, including first beginnings as a centre for genetic research. The prize in the Geography/Geology section of the records provide a detailed picture of the lives Fifth International Festival of Technical and and research of individuals connected to the Scientific Films in 1970. Identifying the content Institute and include the papers of the key and stabilising these films will aid the further geneticists C H Waddington (1905–1975) and analysis of the collection and its potential for F A E Crew (1886–1973) and the zoologist digitisation and use for future research. J C Ewart (1951–1933). Two additional grants were awarded in 2002 and Many items required some degree of 2006. The first supported a preservation survey preservation work in addition to cataloguing of the historic archive of the Royal (Dick) School and contextualising (in terms of research of Veterinary Studies, part of the University, to history and human stories). The project has establish the preservation needs of the collection, also included preparation for eventual which includes manuscripts, theses, maps and digitisation, and the material will be made early printed books. This led to the formation of accessible to a worldwide audience online a basic finding aid, which has improved access when the initial stages of work have been until a full catalogue can be created. completed. Other collections still in private Glasgow University Library and Archives and departmental care have also been scoped The 2006 project ‘Unlocking the MD: The first of the eight grants awarded to Glasgow original material, without the production of out for future work. For the duration of the Widening access to the University of Eight grants University supported a project to catalogue the surrogate copies, would have been inaccessible project, information and updates are available Edinburgh MD theses collection’ improved (2002–2011) papers of R D Laing (1927–1989), the eminent for consultation because of the risk of physical via the blog towardsdolly.wordpress.com. The access to a substantial resource for the history Total: £294 819 psychiatrist, psychotherapist, writer and poet. damage. Almost wholly unseen, the footage of project has featured in two profile-raising of medicine by cataloguing the complete Laing’s work in patient care and the aetiology of his 32 talks in a 35-day tour provides an insight articles produced for the Scottish Council on collection of University of Edinburgh MD schizophrenia is currently being re-evaluated into his theories and his personality and reveals Archives e-newsletter, Broadsheet, and several theses from 1726 to 1930. For most of this and so is of increasing research interest. He has Laing at the height of his celebrity against a researchers have registered an interest in using period, Edinburgh was regarded as the leading been the subject of more than half a dozen background of waning professional credibility. the collection as soon as it becomes available. medical centre in Europe. The collection was biographical and critical studies since his death, The film deposit also included a collection of fully catalogued and is a useful resource for both for his contributions and radical theories in Peter Robinson’s films illustrating Laing’s A small grant was awarded for a separate those teaching or learning within the the field of psychiatry and for his cultural role in concepts. This material has been used project to assess the content and condition of disciplines of the history of medicine and the 1970s. extensively – most notably by artist Luke the films of Eric Lucey, which had recently science and education. Fowler, whose filmAll Divided Selves, which was been returned to Edinburgh by the British Film This collection – which, since the project was shortlisted for the Turner Prize for Institute in London. Lucey ran the Institute for Online completed, has seen a 400 per cent increase in contemporary art in 2012, exposes portraits of Animal Genetics Research Film Unit, and his Information on the Eric Lucey films project the number of records accessible on the online counterculture figures that have become extensive collection includes films about or www.archives.lib.ed.ac.uk/lucey/ catalogue – provides a valuable insight into marginalised. The documentary focuses on featuring leading medics and scientists such as Laing’s early clinical work, social life and archival representations of Laing and his promotion of what would become known as colleagues as they struggled to acknowledge the ‘anti-psychiatry’ movement. It also contains the importance of considering social correspondence with numerous prominent environment and disturbed interaction in figures in psychiatry, pop culture and literature institutions as significant factors in the throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. aetiology of human distress and suffering.

The cataloguing of these papers led to further The film has been highly praised, and the deposits of material, including the original and archival material has sometimes been explicitly unedited footage of Laing’s 1972 American mentioned. Fisun Güner, writing for The Art lecture tour (which was preserved through a Room, was somewhat scathing of Fowler further Wellcome Trust grant in 2009). This himself, suggesting it is “the archive footage

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that’s interesting, and not what Fowler does forensic medicine research resources in other with any of it particularly”. repositories and institutions across the UK. Greater Glasgow Health Board The website receives more than 30 000 visitors The Thomas McClurg Anderson Project: conserving and making accessible a key collection of visual materials for A grant awarded in 2008 catalogued the each year, providing a global resource for the history of physiotherapy • Cataloguing and conservation of 20th-century records of Gartnavel Royal Hospital Thomson family archives, leading to further research in the history of forensic medicine. funding for a conservation project in 2009. In The collection is used extensively: for example, addition to the papers of physicians John the exhibition Visible Proofs at the National A grant was awarded in 2005 to clean, repair and As a result of the project, researchers can view Thomson (1765–1846), Allen Thomson (1809– Institutes of Health in Maryland, USA, drew Grant number: transfer to telecine the cine films of Thomas the films by appointment. 1884) and William Thomson (1802–1852), the heavily on it. It has also informed research for GR076787 McClurg Anderson (1899–1980), a radical collection contains papers relating to William television and film productions dealing with Amount awarded: innovator in physiotherapy who originated Additional funding in 2011 supported a project Cullen (1710–1790), given to the University by the popular themes of crime and forensic £24 751 ergonomics (human kinetics) and was Principal to catalogue and conserve at-risk 20th-century the descendants of John Thomson. The papers investigation, and was used in Dr Paula Grant number: of the Scottish Physiotherapy Hospital and mental health records from Gartnavel Royal of teacher, professor and general practitioner Summerly’s academic research ‘In camera: GR097852 School. A controversial figure, McClurg Hospital. John Thomson are of particular interest. They photographing forensic medicine and science’, Amount awarded: Anderson was highly critical of the Chartered cover lecture material, records of military which was published in the Journal of Visual £10 153 Society of Physiotherapy, which he believed Contact medicine, and papers and correspondence on Communication in Medicine in 2007. made physiotherapy subservient to the medical NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Archivist syphilis, smallpox and the brain; however, they profession. His large collection of papers, films Archive Services also include correspondence with William More recently, grants were awarded to improve and books is held in the NHS Greater Glasgow University of Glasgow Cullen, about whom he wrote the biography access to the papers of Thomas Ferguson Health Board Archives. McClurg Anderson used 77–87 Dumbarton Road entitled The Life of Cullen. Rodger, Professor of Psychological Medicine, cine film for teaching and research: he filmed a Glasgow G11 6PW and to catalogue modern genetics collections wide range of people performing a great variety www.archives.gla.ac.uk/gghb/default.html This has links to another Research Resources in in the University archives. The latter project of physical activities, from heavy lifting and Medical History project to catalogue the archives involves the creation of an online resource at clerical work to domestic chores and athletics. of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Glasgow telling the story of a crucial period in and a large Arts and Humanities Research modern genetics through the archives of the Council grant, ‘The Consultation Letters of Dr University’s three pre-eminent geneticists: William Cullen (1710–1790) at the Royal College Professor Guido Pontecorvo, Professor of Physicians of Edinburgh’, awarded to the Malcolm Ferguson-Smith and Professor James English Department of the University of Glasgow. Harrison Renwick. Institute of Occupational Medicine The project will create a publicly accessible online Creation of a public archive of occupational health findings from the Institute of Occupational Medicine edition of the Cullen correspondence and Another outcome of this project was the undertake related interdisciplinary research inclusion of key parts of the papers in a major connected to the subject. digitisation initiative by the Wellcome Library. The Institute of Occupational Medicine in Contact ‘Foundations of Modern Genetics’ is a digital Grant number: Edinburgh is the leading independent centre of Institute of Occupational Medicine In 2002, Research Resources in Medical History research resource that brings together 20 GR078805 scientific excellence in the fields of occupational Research Ave S also funded a project to catalogue the extensive important genetics archives and more than Amount awarded: and environmental health, hygiene and risk in Edinburgh forensic medicine collection held at Glasgow 1400 genetics books from the Wellcome £19 564 the UK. In 2005 a grant was awarded to digitise Midlothian EH14 4AP University Archive Services. The collection Library and partner institutions. the Institute’s Technical Memorandum Reports, T +44 (0)131 449 8000 includes teaching materials, correspondence, which are now freely available to researchers via www.iom-world.org/iom_library/libraryentry. press cuttings, personal papers, photos and Online the Institute’s website, and to commission a php detailed case notes relating to some of Cullen correspondence online resources written commentary on the work to guide access Glasgow’s and Scotland’s most notorious www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/research/ to the material. crimes. The project resulted in the cataloguing fundedresearchprojects/drwilliamcullen of material that had previously been either Forensic Medicine Collection Website unlisted or inadequately catalogued. It also www.fmap.archives.gla.ac.uk resulted in the creation of a website that National Institutes of Health online exhibition presents search records and case files within a www.nlm.nih.gov/visibleproofs/ narrative structure and has a research guide to

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Dunlop’s case notes cover the same period, Sexual Dysfunction Clinic case notes (1971– which includes his time as Christison Professor 1994), and Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh of Therapeutics and Clinical Medicine from Gynaecology case notes (1930–1959). The 1936 to 1952. A distinguished teacher of clinical records enable scholars to understand how medicine specialising in the treatment of clinical medicine and surgery evolved in metabolic disorders, he produced publications Edinburgh, and the amalgam of technical, providing detailed accounts of trials involving scientific and social information they contain new drugs for diseases and conditions such as provides the basis for a wide range of study in Addison’s disease, thyrotoxicosis, the history of sexual and reproductive health. hyperthyroidism, asthma, tuberculosis and diabetes. Dunlop was knighted in 1960 for his In 2008, a project began based on case notes services to medicine and became Physician to relating to the treatment of tuberculosis the Queen in Scotland in 1961. Both collections (1940–1989) and World War II injuries (1939– include charts, correspondence, photographs 1949) in Edinburgh. The preservation of this and X-rays, all previously stored in conditions collection enables clinical and thematic that were causing damage. historical approaches to aspects of the history of tuberculosis and war medicine. Recent research Three further grants enabled the continuation that has drawn on these newly accessible of LHSA’s programme to catalogue and collections includes undergraduate research preserve 20th-century case notes. projects into war psychiatry and the treatment of shell shock, and PhD research on shell shock The first covered the case notes of the Royal at Craiglockhart Military Hospital and dementia Edinburgh Hospital for Nervous Disorders, praecox diagnosis after World War I. ensuring access to a scarce, nationally and internationally significant archival resource Research Resources in Medical History funding Lothian Health Services Archive created by what is arguably Scotland’s most has enabled LHSA to promote its collection of historically important psychiatric hospital. The folder-based case notes, which were previously Lothian Health Services Archive (LHSA) holds Professors Edwin Bramwell, from 1919 to 1935, collection is of interest to a wide range of overlooked because of their poor condition in Six grants around a million patients’ records in the largest and Norman Dott, from 1923 to 1959, securing (2001–2011) researchers, likely to include historians, comparison to bound notes, as a unique collection of 20th-century case notes in the the long-term preservation of both collections Total: £342 333 clinicians, students, NHS staff and members of primary source for understanding the history UK. The poor condition of many of the records and improving safe access to them. The records the general public undertaking genealogical of 20th-century medicine. and the need for preservation measures was are accompanied by X-rays and glass plate research. More information can be found on identified as an obstacle to research access in negatives associated with individual case notes. the LHSA website (www.lhsa.lib.ed.ac.uk/ On a practical level, methodology developed 2000 in a survey funded by the Research One outcome of this increased access was the projects/rrmhreh.html). during these projects sets the standard for the Support Libraries Programme, which aimed to publication of Christopher Lawrence’s preservation of historic, folder-based NHS case improve intellectual access to personal health Rockefeller Money, the Laboratory and Medicine A preservation project based on folder-based notes and provides a leading example of best records in Scotland by creating the web-based in Edinburgh 1919–30 (Rochester Press, 2005), case notes (1930–1994) relating to reproductive practice for other repositories. finding aid ‘Finding the Right Clinical Notes: which drew heavily on the case notes of Edwin and sexual health in Edinburgh followed. This Improving research access to personal health Bramwell in particular to tell the story of included records from the Edinburgh Royal Online records in Scotland 1600–1994’. Since 2001, academic medicine in Edinburgh in the 1920s. Maternity Hospital and Simpson Memorial Research Support Libraries Programme-funded LHSA has received six Research Resources in In 2011, a further grant was awarded to Maternity Pavilion obstetric case notes (1935– project clinical notes website Medical History grants in support of projects to catalogue Dott’s neurosurgical case notes. 1954), Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh www.clinicalnotes.ac.uk preserve and catalogue records from a range of Gynaecology Outpatients Infertility Clinic case Reproductive and sexual health case notes institutions and influential individuals in the In 2003, a second grant was awarded to notes (1945–1993), Royal Infirmary of www.lhsa.lib.ed.ac.uk/conservation/conserv_ Scottish medicine in the 20th century, a period preserve the case notes of Professors Derrick Edinburgh and Western General Hospital case_notes.htm of particular interest within the Wellcome Dunlop and James Learmouth. The case notes Trust Medical History and Humanities of Learmouth, specialist in peripheral nerve programme. As a result of Research Resources and vascular injuries, date from 1936 to 1957. in Medical History funding, 30 per cent This period covers his time as University (approximately 300 linear metres of shelving) Professor of Surgery (1939–1956), holding the of LHSA’s 20th-century folder-based case notes Regius Professorship of Clinical Surgery from have been treated and are much easier for 1946. The surviving notes over the World researchers to use. War II years are of particular interest as he continued to both practise and teach The first grant, in 2001, preserved the case throughout this time. notes of University of Edinburgh neurologists

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Collections included in the website have in the summer of 2012 after having seen and provided the research base for two PhDs and are praised the online resource. regularly used by medical historians, colonial historians and historians of South Asia, as well Throughout the digitisation programme, as current epidemiologists, medical practitioners fragile or damaged items were identified for and researchers in the field. The site provides conservation treatment, and preservation free access to fully searchable documents, measures were put in place to ensure the together with explanatory text on the long-term survival of the original documents. significance of specific reports and background information. It is easy to explore using a variety Online of search methods and has been the focus of MHBI website considerable interest from global users, www.nls.uk/indiapapers/index.html including the Dalai Lama, who was shown items MHBI project blog from the collection during his visit to Scotland blogs.nls.uk/indiapapers/

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow

National Library of Scotland Cataloguing and cleaning the medical library of Dr William MacKenzie • Conservation survey of the MacKenzie collection The National Library of Scotland (NLS) is the Numerous titles relate to the Bombay plague of Five grants largest legal deposit library north of 1896–99, although histories covering the whole (2005–2010) In 2005, a grant was awarded to catalogue the Contact Aberystwyth. Among its extensive and varied country and individual reports of outbreaks in Total: £299 119 Grant number: printed book collection of Dr William 232–242 St Vincent Street collections is a large collection of official isolated villages are also included. The reports, GR070750 MacKenzie, a pioneer specialist in Glasgow G2 5RJ documents from Colonial India. The NLS published by the colonial administration in Amount awarded: ophthalmology in the UK who founded the T +44 (0)141 221 6072 collection of India papers has been the subject India, are very rare. £12 750 Glasgow Eye Infirmary (the earliest specialist copac.ac.uk/about/libraries/rcpsg.html of five Research Resources in Medical History hospital in Glasgow) with George Cunningham grants since 2005 to support the creation of a The next stage of the programme focused on Grant number: Monteath in 1824. free-to-use global resource, Medical History of printed items from the veterinary medicine GR081149 British India (MHBI), a website that provides collection, broadening the research value of the Amount awarded: £1511 The library consists of 800 items, including 55 access to full-text digital copies of the material overall collection by adding material to support bound volumes of pamphlets. In addition to in the collection with useful contextualisation. research interests in agricultural and veterinary books on ophthalmology, the collection The MHBI website was created during the first medicine, animal husbandry and genealogy. encompasses anatomy and physiology, as well as project and has been developed further because clinical subjects such as surgery and midwifery. of its popularity among global researchers Work on the project continued in 2009 with Together, they provide evidence of MacKenzie’s (particularly in India, where archive collections the addition of reports and publications from clinical and research interests during a time when are often in extremely poor condition and it the colonial mental hospitals of India. This medicine changed greatly in terms of concepts can be difficult to gain permission to use them). component of the collection was publicised by and the understanding of the nature of disease. the library in a paper on ‘Lunatic asylums in Printed papers relating to disease prevention British India: a National Library of Scotland and control in British India were the first to be collection’ at the ‘Making Sense of Madness’ microfilmed and digitised, supported by two conference in Oxford in 2012. consecutive grants. These publications contain documents relating to epidemics and disease The most recent grant (awarded in 2010) has control in the late 19th and early 20th added vaccination reports to the website, such centuries, dealing with the practice of public as reports on inoculation in the plague-infected health and the response to diseases and areas of the Punjab 1900–01. More reports will epidemics including cholera, smallpox, sleeping be added over time, and regular progress sickness, malaria, leprosy and plague. reports are provided on the MHBI blog.

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discovered among the collection add a human awarded to the library of Glasgow University in Royal College dimension to the historic papers, and among the 2008 to catalogue the Thomson family archives. collections are the notes and research of some of The archive includes papers linked to Cullen, used of Physicians of the most eminent doctors of their day. One of the by John Thomson in the preparation of his Five grants most notable of these physicians is William biography The Life of Cullen. More information on (2002–2009) Total: £212 998 Cullen, the subject of an Arts and Humanities this project can be found in the Glasgow highlight Edinburgh Research Council grant awarded to the English article. department of Glasgow University. The project In the 19th century, the Royal College of will create a digital edition of Cullen’s Online Physicians of Edinburgh held Scotland’s leading correspondence, The Consultation Letters of Dr Archive report medical library, and during that time it gained William Cullen (1710–1790) at the Royal College of www.rcpe.ac.uk/library/rcpe-archive-survey.doc possession of an extensive collection that Physicians of Edinburgh, based around the Cullen Archive demonstrates developments in medical theory letters in the newly catalogued College archive. archives.rcpe.ac.uk/calmView and practice from 1700 onwards. The College has dissemination used by Victorian medical The College cataloguing project will be central to Information on the Simpson collection and received five grants since 2002 to support projects practitioners. The catalogue of this 19th-century the success of this endeavour. cataloguing project that will safeguard these valuable library and collection, which can now be searched www.rcpe.ac.uk/library/find/simpson/ archive collections for future generations of users. electronically in much more useful ways, has There is a further link to a separate Research www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/research/ proved invaluable to researchers. The cataloguing Resources in Medical History grant, which was fundedresearchprojects/drwilliamcullen/ In 2002, the Research Resources in Medical projects have been of particular use to Dr Morrice History programme awarded a grant to the McCrae in his research for the biography Simpson: College to enable the cataloguing of Sir James The turbulent life of a medical pioneer (published by Young Simpson’s pamphlet collection. Simpson John Donald, Edinburgh, 2010). The collection was Professor of Midwifery at Edinburgh was also used as a resource to support an event at University for more than 30 years; during that the 2009 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where time, he discovered the anaesthetic properties of librarian Iain Milne and historian Morrice McCrae University of Aberdeen chloroform and pioneered its use. Simpson’s use presented and discussed their favourite 18th- of chloroform during childbirth was initially seen Cataloguing medical archives in Aberdeen University: the 20th century • Materia medica: cataloguing the medical archives and century books and manuscripts from the library as controversial, but he persisted and was manuscripts collections of Aberdeen’s King’s and Marischal Colleges from the 15th to the 19th centuries • Conservation survey of and the colourful personalities and practices of eventually recognised internationally for his the early medical archives in Aberdeen University • Preserving the early medical archives in Aberdeen University • Preserving the the period recorded in the library’s collection. The contribution to medicine, making him one of the early medical archives in Aberdeen University event was a great success and served to promote most famous men of his time. The Simpson awareness and raise the profile of the collection to monographs had been catalogued by the College wider audiences. Five grants awarded to the Library of the available via a PDF guide on the University in 1999 but in 2002 the pamphlets remained Grant number: University of Aberdeen between 2003 and 2008 website (www.abdn.ac.uk/library/documents/ unlisted, despite containing a considerable GR072197 In 2009, Research Resources in Medical History have combined to produce catalogues of the guides/hcol/qghcol007.pdf). number sent to Simpson by other leading Amount awarded: awarded funding for two linked projects. First, a University’s holdings in the history of medicine, practitioners of the time. In addition, many of the £52 107 survey of the College’s archival holdings was including 20th-century medical archives, Contact title pages contain either the author’s inscriptions commissioned with the aim of developing a medical archives and manuscripts from the 15th Special Collections Centre or Simpson’s manuscript annotations. The Grant number: project proposal based on the findings and to the 19th centuries, and the archives of the University Library collection is now accessible via an online GR077436 recommendations in the survey report. This led to Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society (from 1789 Bedford Road catalogue, which includes an introduction to the Amount awarded: a second award to catalogue the collections, which £52 196 to the 20th century). Additional grants have Aberdeen AB24 3AA project and further contextualisation. were largely unlisted and difficult for researchers supported preservation and conservation for T +44 (0)1224 272598 to access. The archives contain many documents Grant number: items identified as fragile or damaged. Further www.abdn.ac.uk/library/documents/guides/ In 2003, the College undertook a second project, detailing the history of the College from its GR078850 details of the projects and their outcomes, hcol/qghcol007.pdf fully funded by the Research Resources in Medical inception to the present day, the personal papers Amount awarded: together with a link to the catalogues, are History programme, to add its Victorian Medicine of significant physicians of the Enlightenment and £8400 in Print collection to the Edinburgh online large collections of 20th-century administrative catalogue. A second phase of the project received records. Cataloguing priorities were established Grant number: additional funding in 2006, to increase research on the basis of perceived historical value – which GR081617 access to this important resource of 19th-century was, in turn, based on research interest from Amount awarded: printed primary material. Included in the £36 597 scholars. collection are texts on scientific medicine, public health and sociology, in addition to works by Grant number: The improved accessibility to the collection Christison, Koch, Lister, Pasteur, Hughes-Bennett, GR085826 revealed a great amount of detailed information, Simpson, Syme and Virchow. During the project, Amount awarded: as many individual volumes and documents were interesting links were revealed that highlighted £39 492 listed and described for the first time. The case the sophisticated networks of information notes, drawings and medical illustrations

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University of St Andrews Ireland

Cataloguing the papers of Harold Garnett Callan

A grant was awarded in 2001 to catalogue the professional correspondence with other Grant number: papers of Harold Garnett Callan, Professor of scientists, and material relating to Callan’s GR070824 Natural History at St Andrews University from teaching at the University. As a result of the Amount awarded: 1950 to 1982. Callan, who specialised in cell project, the catalogue is freely available to £25 000 physiology, undertook groundbreaking research remote users via the University Archives website. into genetics and DNA. He was the first to demonstrate the linearity of DNA along the Contact chromosome, and used lampbrush chromosomes Department of Special Collections (which are found in all animals except mammals) Library Annexe – frequently from newts and toads – to study North Haugh chromosome activity during periods other than St Andrews, Fife cell division, which was the only time that other Scotland KY16 9WH chromosomes could be studied. T +44 (0)1334 462339 www.st-andrews.ac.uk/library/ The collection of 68 boxes includes research specialcollections/projects/ notes, chromosome photography, personal and CataloguingofthePapersofHaroldGarnettCallan/

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district asylums) as the Richmond Lunatic supporting a second phase of work to Donegal County Archives Service Asylum, was the earliest and the largest of the catalogue the archive will result in the Irish public asylums. The records are the oldest provision of substantial resources for scholars Conservation survey of medical and health records held by Donegal County Archives and most extensive surviving collection of working on the history of mental health care mental hospital records in Ireland and in Ireland. comprise manuscript documents, bound A small grant was awarded to support Online Grant number: volumes, case books, patient files and The extent of the collaboration and an assessment of the physical condition of www.donegalcoco.ie/services/ GR089258 photographs. The collection includes registers cooperation between NAI and the history of medical and health-related archives in Donegal communityculturalenterprise/Archives+Service/ Amount awarded: of admission from 1814, committal forms and medicine research community in Ireland, who County Archives. archivescollection.htm#health £10 714 admission files from the 1850s to the 1970s, share an interest in seeing historic health relatively complete runs of case books, which records preserved and made available for include photographs of patients, from between research purposes, has been a notable feature 1880 and 1955, and a wide range of other of these grants. operational and administrative records. Online A grant awarded in 2011 allowed the records to NAI website be transferred to NAI for decontamination, www.nationalarchives.ie National Archives of Ireland cleaning and repackaging, and a further award

Three grants In recent years, the urgent preservation issues The archives of the Women’s National Health (2008–2011) surrounding historic medical records in Association of Ireland, comprising more than Total: £205 058 Ireland have been highlighted during 100 archive boxes of material, commence in discussions between medical historians and 1905 and describe the wide range of health the National Archives of Ireland. This led to initiatives in which it was involved. Some three successful funding applications from the preservation work was carried out, and Royal College of Physicians of Ireland National Archives of Ireland (NAI) to the descriptive catalogue records, including Content and condition survey of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland archives • Securing the legacy of Irish Research Resources in Medical History scheme background and contextual material, are now medical history: creating an online catalogue of the historic archive of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in support of projects to rescue significant accessible globally via the NAI website. Items records for the benefit of researchers. requiring more extensive conservation treatment were also identified for future Following a three-month assessment survey of the relevant items running across several collections, The first grant was awarded to NAI in 2008 to reference. This project has been publicised Grant number: Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) further enhancing the potential for opening up improve access to the records of the Peamount through an article on the project and the GR088511 archives by a project archivist, a further Research new areas of research. A link to the catalogue, the Sanatorium and its forerunner body the content of the collection in the Journal of the Amount awarded: Resources in Medical History grant was awarded in archives blog and further information about the Women’s National Health Association of Society of Archivists and through smaller £13 511 2009 to support the creation of a comprehensive content of RCPI’s substantial archive collections Ireland by supporting a large-scale articles in Wellcome History, Irish Economic and online catalogue of the entire archival holdings of can be found online. preservation and cataloguing project. The Social History, and the newsletter of the Grant number: RCPI from its foundation in the 17th century. The records were transferred from very poor Archives and Records Association Ireland. GR090842 eight known archive collections were increased to Contact storage conditions at the Peamount Hospital Amount awarded: £76 437 26 collections as a result of information discovered 6 Kildare Street site to NAI. There, they were treated for pest Work on the Peamount archives enabled NAI during the project. Researchers are now able to Dublin 2 infestations and mould before being cleaned to develop a robust framework for processing access the catalogue remotely and identify material Ireland and repackaged and, finally, catalogued for the large volume of historical records in Irish of interest in advance of visits. The indexing of T +353 1 669 8801 future use by the research community. hospitals. In 2010, a small grant was awarded catalogue records allows researchers to find www.rcpi.ie/HeritageCentre/Pages/Archive.aspx to conduct a condition and content survey of The Women’s National Health Association of the records of St Brendan’s Mental Hospital, Ireland was founded in 1907 by Lady Aberdeen Grangegorman, Dublin, with the aim of to promote public health. It was instrumental developing a larger project proposal to in founding its successor, the Peamount preserve and increase access to the records. Sanatorium, in 1912, which continued to be the The archive is an extensive collection of most important sanatorium and tuberculosis hospital records that provides important hospital in Ireland until 2004. The archives of primary source material for research into the the sanatorium begin in 1912, and the history of the treatment of mental illness and collection – which comprises hundreds of many aspects of social, economic and cultural bound volumes, 40 000 patient index cards history. It was noted that the existing storage and 30 000 patient files – is the largest conditions were a serious risk to the archive. surviving collection of records of a tuberculosis hospital in Ireland. St Brendan’s, which was opened in 1814 (before the establishment of a countrywide network of

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University College Dublin Wales

Survey of the Royal College for Science for Ireland library holdings in University College Dublin Library

A grant was awarded to assess the content and Grant number: condition of the holdings of the Royal College of GR090788 Science for Ireland Library at University College Amount awarded: Dublin, which were dispersed across several £16 271 locations throughout the campus. The earliest material dates from the late 17th century, but the majority of the holdings range from the mid-19th to the early 20th centuries, forming one of the Contact most comprehensive Victorian libraries for the University College Dublin Archives is on the history of science in Ireland and the UK. During a main University College Dublin campus at three-month survey, the location, content and Belfield, Dublin 4. condition of Royal College of Science for Ireland www.ucd.ie/library/finding_information/ material across the University College Dublin special/printed/rcsi/ campus was assessed, providing information for the development of plans to clean, catalogue, repair and digitise key parts of the collection.

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National Museums Charts and Galleries of Wales

Conservation of early herbals

This grant, in 2003, enabled the National coloured illustrations of medicinal plants. As a Grant number: Museums and Galleries of Wales to commission result of conservation, they are available to GR072154 Christopher Clarkson to undertake the researchers on request in the main library. Amount awarded: conservation of three volumes from the £10 000 collection of early herbals. The books were Online constructed around 1552 and contain manuscript www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/rhagor/article/1991/ text with many annotations and unique

University of Cardiff

Cataloguing archives of human geneticists • Cataloguing further archives of human geneticists • Cataloguing the genetics library

Following a survey of genetics collections in the form. A third grant, awarded in the same year, Grant number: UK, a grant was awarded to the University of supported a project to catalogue the genetics GR090851 Cardiff to catalogue the papers of J H Renwick, library, a specialist collection within the Amount awarded: C A B Smith and Malcolm Ferguson-Smith. An University holdings. £89 000 additional grant was awarded the following year Grant number: to catalogue the papers of John Edwards, George Contact GR093738 Fraser and the Medical Research Council’s Unit Art and Social Studies Library Amount awarded: of Human Biochemical Genetics at the Galton Colum Drive £49 459 Laboratory. The project also safeguarded the Cardiff CF10 3EU archives of the Cardiff University clinical www.genmedhist.info/Records%20of%20 Grant number: geneticist Peter Harper, mostly in electronic British%20Human%20Geneticists/ GR093739 Amount awarded: £14 200

University of Swansea

Identifying medical records in the South Wales Coalfield Collection

In 2004, a grant was awarded to the University of A small additional grant was awarded to Grant number: Swansea to identify and publicise the medical Glamorgan Record Office in 2006 to provide GR074808 records in the South Wales Coalfields Collection, preservation boxing for the collection prior to a Amount awarded: which is held by the University. The award funded location move. £53 426 the production of a guide to the collection, enhanced cataloguing to include subject headings Online at item level, a new ‘Medicine and Health’ page for www.swan.ac.uk/swcc/ the web materials site and the preparation of a www.agor.org.uk/cwm/Default.asp publicity leaflet to raise awareness of the collection.

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Index Grantholder Repository Collection Grant number Page Aberdeen City Council Aberdeen Art Gallery and Assessment and preservation of the prescription 089843 56 Museum registers of Davidson & Kay Limited Addenbrooke’s Hospital Addenbrooke’s Hospital Conservation and preservation of 080080 32 Archives, Cambridge Addenbrooke’s Hospital case notes (1878–1947)

Army Medical Services Royal Army Medical Assessment and listing of the Royal Army 089129 37 Museum Services Museum, Medical Services archives Aldershot Berkshire Record Office Berkshire Record Office, Cataloguing and conservation of the records 076801 32 Reading of the records of Fair Mile Hospital, Cholsey (formerly Berkshire County Asylum) Berkshire Record Office Berkshire Record Office, Cataloguing and conservation of the records of 078856, 32 Reading Broadmoor Hospital 084225 Bethlem Royal Hospital Bethlem Royal Hospital Conservation of Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital 080094 7 Archives and Museum Archives and Museum discharge summaries (1951–1964) Service Bethlem Royal Hospital Bethlem Royal Hospital Conservation of Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital 087482 7 Archives and Museum Archives and Museum discharge summaries (1967–1993) Service Bethlem Royal Hospital Bethlem Royal Hospital Digitisation and online publication of the 074245 7 Archives and Museum Archives and Museum admissions books of Bethlem Hospital Service (1683–1902) Biochemical Society Wellcome Library Cataloguing the archives of the Biochemical 082899 7 Society Birkbeck College, The British Library The Sloane Printed Books Project: a catalogue 090828 8 University of London website of the dispersed book collection of Sir Hans Sloane University of Bristol University of Bristol Scoping survey of the deposited archives of 096605 42 Archives and Special the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Collections Children (ALSPAC) British Dental British Dental Association Conservation of the glass lantern slide collection 071017 9 Association Museum, London British Library British Library, London Cataloguing the history of medicine oral 070841 9 collections of the National Sound Archive at the British Library British Library British Library, London Cataloguing the papers of Sir Alexander Fleming 073910 9 British Library British Library, London Cataloguing the medieval medical manuscripts 074813 9 in the Harleian Collection British Library British Library, London Cataloguing the papers of Dame Anne McLaren 095687 9 FRS British Medical British Medical Survey of the BMA’s 20th-century registry file 077445 10 Association Association, London collection Cambridgeshire County Cambridgeshire Archives Cataloguing and preservation of the records of 070832 33 Council Papworth Hospital Cardiff University Cardiff University Cataloguing archives of human geneticists 090851 74 Archives Cardiff University Cardiff University Cataloguing further archives of human 093738 74 Archives geneticists Cardiff University Cardiff University Library Cataloguing the Human Genetics Historical 093739 74 Special Collections Library

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Churchill College Churchill Archives Centre Surveying the deposited papers of Professor 094985 34 King’s College London King’s College London Cataloguing and preserving the community 080109 14 Cambridge Robert Edwards and Professor Sir Aaron Klug Library and Archives psychiatry, brain chemistry, care in the The Children’s Society The Children’s Society Surveying the archives of the Children’s Society 094766 community and palliative oncology collections 11 Archive Centre, London King’s College London King’s College London Cataloguing and conservation of the St 076799 14 Library and Archives Thomas’s Hospital historic collection, including The Children’s Society The Children’s Society Cataloguing the archives of The Children’s 096961 11 Archive Centre, London Society pamphlets, journals and books Cochrane Collaboration Cardiff University Library Surveying the records of the Cochrane 082797 King’s College London King’s College London Cataloguing the papers of psychiatrists Sir 085911 14 42 Collaboration Library and Archives Aubrey Lewis, Hilda Stoessiger and Professor John Gunn, and archives relating to post- Cornwall Record Office Cornwall Record Office, Cataloguing a 19th- and 20th-century archive of 071014 43 traumatic stress disorder Truro mental health care in Cornwall King’s College London King’s College London Cataloguing the papers of Maurice Wilkins 090806 14 Devon County Council Devon Record Office Cataloguing Exeter regional mental health 085857 43 Library and Archives* and the papers of the King’s College London records: Exe Vale Hospital Biophysics Unit Donegal County Council Donegal County Archives Conservation survey of medical and health 089258 70 King’s College London King’s College London Cataloguing the genetics library of Reginald 093740 14 records held by Donegal County Archives Library and Archives Ruggles Gates Dumfries and Galloway Dumfries Local Studies Survey, cataloguing and conservation of the 096515, 56 Kingston University Kingston University Local Extending a database of Great Ormond Street 073912 16 Council Library, Dumfries records of the Crichton Royal Institution 096917 Studies History Centre, Hospital admissions and discharges East Sussex Record Beyond the borderline of mental health: 077435 35 London Office creating access to the archive of the Lady Kingston University Kingston University Local A pilot project on 19th- and 20th-century 083076 16 Chichester Hospital, Hove, 1905–1987 Studies History Centre, hospital admission and discharge registers for Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale Digitisation, conservation and production of 091918 11 London sick children Museum Museum, London transcriptions of Florence Nightingale’s letters Kingston University Kingston University Local Creating a database of Victorian children’s 084252 16 (digitised images), Studies History Centre, hospital patient admissions London Metropolitan London Archives (original letters) Kingston University Kingston University Local Extending a database of Victorian children’s 087567 16 Gravesend Library Kent Arts and Libraries, Preservation of mental health archives at 070927 36 Studies History Centre, hospital patient admissions Dartford Dartford Library: Metropolitan Asylum Board London minutes Kingston University Kingston University Local Digitising the case notes of Sir Archibald Garrod 095139 16 Great Ormond Street Great Ormond Street Microfilming the patient admissions registers 070813 12 Studies History Centre, Hospital Hospital, London and case notes of Dr Charles West London Imperial War Museum Imperial War Museum, Cataloguing the papers of Air Vice Marshall Sir 078828 13 Lambeth Palace Library Lambeth Palace Library, Conservation of medical licences and Court of 070614 16 London William Tyrrell London Arches records involving medical practitioners Imperial War Museum Imperial War Museum, Surveying and listing un-accessioned history of 091987 13 and midwives London medicine collections Library of the Religious Friends House, London Cataloguing, conservation and digitisation of 089189 17 Institute of Occupational Institute of Occupational Digitisation and online publication of 078805 61 Society of Friends the temperance and moral welfare collections Medicine Medicine, Edinburgh the research findings of the Institute of Lincolnshire County Lincolnshire Archives Microfilming the records of the Lincolnshire 070842 50 Occupational Medicine Council County Asylum Institute of Institute of Cataloguing and preserving the archives of the 074832 13 Lincolnshire County Lincolnshire Archives Digitising the microfilmed records of the 095388 50 Psychoanalysis Psychoanalysis, London British Psychoanalytical Society Council Lincolnshire County Asylum John Innes Research John Innes Research Improving access to and usage of the history of 093741 36 Linnean Society of Linnean Society of Cataloguing the correspondence of Sir James 089195 17 Centre Centre Library and genetics collections London London Edward Smith (1759–1828) Archives, Norwich Liverpool Medical Liverpool Medical Cataloguing the Liverpool Medical Institution 070807 51 King’s College London King’s College London Cataloguing King’s medical collections (1723– 070811 14 Institution Institution Archives Archives Library and Archives 2003) Liverpool Medical Liverpool Medical Preserving the Liverpool Medical Institution 076803 51 King’s College London King’s College London Preservation of post-mortem registers 071388 14 Institution Institution Archives Archives Library and Archives Liverpool Record Office Liverpool Record Office Cataloguing the archives of hospitals in 070612 51 King’s College London King’s College London Cataloguing and preserving records from the 070817 14 Liverpool Library and Archives King’s College School of Medicine and Dentistry Liverpool School of Liverpool School of Surveying the medical history archives at 083053 52 King’s College London King’s College London Survey of the Leighton Facial Development 086966 14 Tropical Medicine Tropical Medicine Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine offsite storage facility Collection London Metropolitan London Metropolitan Conservation of the archives of Normansfield 089193 18 Archives Archives, London Hospital

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London Metropolitan London Metropolitan Cataloguing the records of London hospitals, 070611 18 Queen Victoria Hospital Queen Victoria Hospital Surveying the archives of Queen Victoria 090804 37 Archives Archives, London including the Leavesden Hospital, Queen NHS Trust Archives, East Grinstead Hospital: historic patient records and papers Charlotte’s Hospital, Woolwich Memorial relating to Archibald McIndoe and the Blond Hospital, Barnet Hospital and National Heart McIndoe Burns Unit Hospital, and the records of the Tavistock and Royal Botanic Gardens Royal Botanic Gardens, Nineteenth-century documentary sources for 080114 22 Portman Clinic Kew materia medica at the Royal Botanic Gardens, London Metropolitan London Metropolitan Cataloguing the archive of the London 072193 18 Kew: a pilot study of quinine Archives Archives, London Metropolitan Asylums Board Royal College of Nursing Royal College of Nursing, Digitisation and online publication of historic 070833 22 London Metropolitan London Metropolitan Conservation of the casebooks of the London 076826 18 London nursing journals Archives Archives, London Homeopathic Hospital Royal College of Royal College of Cataloguing the institutional archives and 070829 23 London Metropolitan The Women’s Library Cataloguing the Josephine Butler Society 074810 30 Physicians of London Physicians, London donated holdings of the Royal College of University Archive Physicians

London School of London School of Cataloguing and preserving the papers of Sir 072199 19 Royal College of Royal College of Cataloguing and cleaning the medical library of 076828 65 Hygiene and Tropical Hygiene and Tropical Ronald Ross Physicians and Surgeons Physicians and Surgeons Dr William MacKenzie Medicine Medicine, London of Glasgow of Glasgow London School of London School of Conservation of the London School of Hygiene 077440 19 Royal College of Royal College of Conservation survey of the MacKenzie 081149 65 Hygiene and Tropical Hygiene and Tropical and Tropical Medicine historic map collection Physicians and Surgeons Physicians and Surgeons collection Medicine Medicine, London (1900–1960) of Glasgow of Glasgow

London School of London School of Online publication of the British Voluntary 084207 19 Royal College of Royal College of Cataloguing the Edward Simpson Pamphlet 070831 66 Hygiene and Tropical Hygiene and Tropical Hospitals database, containing statistics from Physicians of Edinburgh Physicians of Edinburgh Collection Medicine Medicine, London the period preceding the NHS (1891–1947) Royal College of Royal College of Victorian Medicine in Print: cataloguing a 072202 66 London School of London School of Cataloguing and preserving the London School 085830 19 Physicians of Edinburgh Physicians of Edinburgh Scottish collection Hygiene and Tropical Hygiene and Tropical of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine nutrition Royal College of Royal College of Victorian Medicine in Print 2: continuing 080110 66 Medicine Medicine, London collection Physicians of Edinburgh Physicians of Edinburgh cataloguing of a Scottish collection National Archives National Archives, Kew Cataloguing Navy surgeons’ journals at the 085863 21 Royal College of Royal College of Developing a 21st-century archive and 086968 66 National Archives (1793–1880) Physicians of Edinburgh Physicians of Edinburgh manuscript strategy for the Royal College of National Archives of National Archives of Transfer, decontamination, cleaning and 087553 70 Physicians of Edinburgh: surveying the archives Ireland Ireland, Dublin cataloguing of the records of the Peamount Royal College of Royal College of Cataloguing the archive of Royal College of 090831 66 Sanatorium and the Women’s National Health Physicians of Edinburgh Physicians of Edinburgh Physicians of Edinburgh Association of Ireland Royal College of Royal College of Surveying the historical archives of the Royal 088511 71 National Archives of National Archives of Surveying the records of St Brendan’s Mental 095369 70 Physicians of Ireland Physicians of Ireland, College of Physicians of Ireland Ireland Ireland, Dublin Hospital, Grangegorman Dublin National Archives of National Archives of Transfer, cleaning and cataloguing of the 098005 70 Royal College of Royal College of Cataloguing the historical archives of the Royal 090842 71 Ireland Ireland, Dublin records of St Brendan’s Mental Hospital, Physicians of Ireland Physicians of Ireland, College of Physicians of Ireland Grangegorman Dublin National Library of National Library of Digitisation of National Library of Scotland 077438, 64 Royal College of Royal College of Conservation of antiquarian books and 070838 23 Scotland Scotland, Edinburgh India Papers Collection: Disease Prevention and 081664 Psychiatrists Psychiatrists, London manuscripts at the Royal College of Psychiatrists Control Royal College of Royal College of Condition survey of the Royal College of 085815 23 National Library of National Library of Digitisation of the National Library of Scotland 085859 64 Psychiatrists Psychiatrists, London Psychiatrists collections Scotland Scotland, Edinburgh India papers collection: veterinary collection Royal College of RCSE, London Cataloguing the tracts and pamphlets in the 070826 24 National Library of National Library of Digitisation of the National Library of Scotland 089219 64 Surgeons England (RCSE) RCSE collections Scotland Scotland, Edinburgh India papers collection: mental illness – Royal College of RCSE, London Cataloguing 17th- to 20th-century deposited 071016 treatment and research 24 Surgeons England (RCSE) archives and manuscripts in the RCSE National Library of National Library of Digitisation of the National Library of Scotland 094982 64 Royal College of RCSE, London Cataloguing further tracts and pamphlets 073892 24 Scotland Scotland, Edinburgh India papers collection: vaccination Surgeons England (RCSE) National Museums and National Museums Conservation of early manuscript herbals 072154 74 Royal College of RCSE, London Conservation of the deposited manuscripts and 078803 Galleries of Wales and Galleries of Wales, 24 Surgeons England (RCSE) archives at the RCSE Cardiff Royal College of RCSE, London Cataloguing 19th-century printed collections at 081658 24 Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire Surveying the archives of Rampton Hospital 095543 53 Surgeons England (RCSE) the RCSE Archives Archives, Nottingham Royal College of RCSE, London Cataloguing early printed collections at the 090844 24 Surgeons England (RCSE) RCSE

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Royal Free Hospital Royal Free Hospital Conservation of the historic patient case notes 073895 25 UCL Hosted by the British The Sloane Printed Books Project 082902 29 Archives, London of the Royal Free Hospital Library website Royal Free Hospital Royal Free Hospital Boxing the minute books of the Royal Free 085409 25 UCL University College Conservation assessment of the UCL Institute 089223 29 Archives, London Hospital and London (Royal Free) School of London Library and of Ophthalmology Joint Library collection Medicine for Women Archives Royal Free Hospital Royal Free Hospital Purchase of a microfilm reader to allow access 090681 25 UCL University College Cataloguing UCL’s genetics collections 095142, 29 Archives, London to microfilmed patient case notes London Library and 095137 The Royal Pavilion And The Royal Pavilion and Digitising the photographic records of the 087627 38 Archives Museums Museums, Brighton Pavilion, which was used a military hospital for UCL University College Surveying the archives of the National Hospital 095275 29 wounded Indian soldiers during World War I London Library and for Neurosurgery and the Institute of Neurology Royal Society Royal Society, London Cataloguing 20th-century medical and 080112 26 Archives physiological papers at the Royal Society UCL University College Cataloguing the archives of the National 098092 29 Royal Society of Royal Society of Retrospective conversion of the Royal Society of 070830 26 London Library and Hospital for Neurosurgery and the Institute of Medicine Medicine, London Medicine pre-1900 rare books catalogue Archives Neurology Royal Society of Seminar ‘Exploiting Medical History: A practical 081528 26 University of Aberdeen University of Aberdeen Cataloguing 19th- and 20th-century printed 072197 67 Medicine approach’, held at the University of Birmingham Library and Archives books in the history of medicine in October 2006 University of Aberdeen University of Aberdeen Cataloguing 15th- to 19th-century medical 077436 67 Sheffield Archives Sheffield Archives, Cataloguing, conservation of and surveying 074894 53 Library and Archives archives and manuscript collections of Sheffield Sheffield and Barnsley’s regional health records Aberdeen’s King’s and Marischal Colleges Shropshire Archives Shropshire Archives Shropshire Routes to Roots: an educational 074839 54 University of Aberdeen University of Aberdeen Conservation of early medical archives in 078850, 67 learning package created using historic records Library and Archives Aberdeen University 081617 from the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt University of Aberdeen University of Aberdeen Cataloguing the archives of the Aberdeen 085826 67 Orthopaedic Hospital Library and Archives Medico-Chirurgical Society (1789 to the 20th St Bartholomew’s St Bartholomew’s Conservation of, cataloguing and digitising 084227 28 century) Hospital (Bart’s and the Hospital Archives the St Bartholomew’s Hospital pathological University of Bath: Churchill Archives Centre Cataloguing the papers of César Milstein 076784 44 London NHS Trust) illustrations National Cataloguing St Bartholomew’s St Bartholomew’s Surveying the archives of St Bartholomew’s 085084 28 Unit for the Archives of Hospital (Bart’s and the Hospital Archives Hospital Contemporary Scientists London NHS Trust) University of Bath: Wellcome Library Cataloguing the papers of Sir Joseph Rotblat 080074 44 St Bartholomew’s St Bartholomew’s Conservation of the records of the Alexandra 086951 28 National Cataloguing Hospital Hospital Archives Hospital for Children with Hip Disease Unit for the Archives of St Bartholomew’s St Bartholomew’s Conservation of two volumes of patient records 086000 28 Contemporary Scientists Hospital Hospital Archives from the Alexander Hip Hospital for Children University of Bath: University of Glasgow Cataloguing the papers of Professor Malcolm 082823 44 with Hip Disease National Cataloguing Archives* Ferguson-Smith, medical geneticist Unit for the Archives of Surrey History Society Surrey History Centre, Cataloguing the archives of Brookwood Mental 070839 38 Woking Hospital, Woking Contemporary Scientists Swansea University Swansea University Identifying medical records in the South Wales 074808 74 University of Bath: Cataloguing the papers of Sir Bernard Katz, 084176 44 Archives Coalfield Collection National Cataloguing physiologist Unit for the Archives of Tyne and Wear Archives Tyne and Wear Archives Cataloguing medical history archives in 070750, 54 Contemporary Scientists Service Service, Discovery Northwest England 072191 Museum, Newcastle University of Bath: Surveying the archives of UK medical and 087447 44 National Cataloguing human geneticists University College Dublin University College Dublin Conservation survey of the Library of the Royal 090788 72 Unit for the Archives of Library College of Science for Ireland Contemporary Scientists UCL University College Cataloguing and conservation of rare books in 070837 29 University of Dundee University of Dundee Cataloguing the medical history records of the 070798 London Library and the libraries of the Institute of Laryngology, the 57 Library and Archives University of Dundee Archives Institute of Orthopaedics and the Department of Human Communication Science, in University of Edinburgh University of Edinburgh Transfer and cleaning of the Royal (Dick) 071018 57 collaboration with UCL’s Library Services Library and Archives Veterinary School Archive UCL University College The restoration of the Carswell Drawings 076790 29 University of Edinburgh University of Edinburgh Cataloguing the University of Edinburgh MD 081623 57 London Library and Collection Library and Archives thesis collection (1726–1930) Archives

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University of Edinburgh University of Edinburgh Conservation survey of the historical veterinary 090777 57 University of Liverpool University of Liverpool Cataloguing the deposited archives of the 071012 54 Library and Archives collection at the University of Edinburgh Library and Archives Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine University of Edinburgh University of Edinburgh Conservation survey of the genetics archive of 094052 University of London Senate House Library Cataloguing the archives of the British 080117 57 27 Library and Archives the Roslin Institute and the Institute of Animal Postgraduate Medical Foundation Genetics University of London Senate House Library Cataloguing the British Psychological Society’s 084054 27 University of Edinburgh University of Edinburgh Scoping the film collection of Eric Lucey and the 096559 57 History of Psychology Collection Library and Archives Institute of Animal Genetics Research Film Unit University of London Senate House Library Cataloguing the papers of Eric Dingwall 096821 27 University of Edinburgh University of Edinburgh Cataloguing the records of the Roslin Institute 096694 57 Library and Archives and the Institute of Animal Genetics University of Manchester John Rylands Library Cataloguing medical archives in Manchester 070819 50 University of Edinburgh Lothian Health Services Preserving the 20th-century hospital case notes 070828 62 University of Manchester John Rylands Library Cataloguing clinical radiology in Manchester: 076832 50 Archive of University of Edinburgh clinical professors the papers of Derek Guttery, Professor Ian Edwin Bramwell and Norman Dott Isherwood and archives relating to the Christie University of Edinburgh Lothian Health Services Preserving the 20th-century hospital case notes 073885 Hospital 62 Archive of University of Edinburgh clinical professors University of Oxford Queen’s College Library Cataloguing and conservation of the medical 071015 39 James Learmouth and Derrick Dunlop collections of Sir John Floyer and Theophilus Metcalfe University of Edinburgh Lothian Health Services Preserving 20th-century case notes of the Royal 076795 62 Archive Edinburgh Hospital University of Oxford Merton and Magdalen Conservation of the early printed medical 080092 39 University of Edinburgh Lothian Health Services Preserving Edinburgh’s 20th-century 081602 College libraries collections in Merton and Magdalen College 62 Archive reproductive and sexual health case notes Libraries University of Oxford Bodleian Library Survey and listing the archives of Sir Walter 095144 University of Edinburgh Lothian Health Services Preserving Edinburgh’s 20th-century case notes: 087624 62 39 Archive treating tuberculosis and World War II injuries Bodmer and Julia Gwynaeth, Lady Bodmer University of Edinburgh Lothian Health Services Cataloguing Norman Dott’s neurosurgical 096918 University of Oxford Bodleian Library Cataloguing the archives of Sir Walter Bodmer 098078 39 62 Archive case notes (1920–1960) and Julia Gwynaeth, Lady Bodmer University of Oxford Department of Cataloguing and digitising the slide collection 097123 University of Exeter University of Exeter Cataloguing the records of the Royal Western 070810 44 39 Archives Counties Hospital, Starcross Physiology, Anatomy and and supporting documentation surrounding Genetics Sherrington and Le Gros Clark’s contributions University of Exeter University of Exeter Sampling and listing NHS Partnership Trust 081752 44 to our understanding of the brain and nervous Archives records of Exe Vale in the Devon Record Office system University of Glasgow University of Glasgow Cataloguing the papers of R D Laing 070834 59 University of St Andrews University of St Andrews Cataloguing the papers of Harold Garnett 070824 Library and Archives 68 Library and Archives Callan University of Glasgow University of Glasgow Cataloguing Glasgow’s forensic medicine 071013 59 University of Warwick University of Warwick Cataloguing the archive of the British 084250 Library and Archives archives 46 Modern Records Centre Association of Social Workers (1970–1995) University of Glasgow University of Glasgow Cataloguing the Thomson family papers 085795 59 University of York The Borthwick Institute Preserving the records of the York NHS Archive 070751 Library and Archives 49 University of Glasgow University of Glasgow R D Laing in America: preserving the original, 089151 University of York The Borthwick Institute Cataloguing the archives of The Retreat, a 070827 49 59 Library and Archives unedited film record of the 1972 lecture tour to of Historical Research centre for the care and treatment of the insane enable access and research University of York The Borthwick Institute Conservation of the archives of The Retreat, a 082821 49 of Historical Research centre for the care and treatment of the insane University of Glasgow University of Glasgow Conservation of the Thomson family papers 090818 59 Library and Archives West Sussex Record Condition survey of the photographic material 072153 40 University of Glasgow University of Glasgow Enhancing the catalogue of the papers of 092891 Office in the patient records of the Graylingwell 59 Library and Archives Renwick and Ferguson-Smith Mental Hospital archive, Chichester Worcester Cathedral Worcester Cathedral Preserving the early medical manuscripts in 080422 University of Glasgow University of Glasgow Cataloguing archives relating to modern 093762 59 47 Library and Archives genetics in Glasgow since 1941 Library Library Worcester Cathedral Library University of Glasgow University of Glasgow Cataloguing the papers of Thomas Ferguson *Key items were included in the Wellcome Library’s digitisation initiative. 092891 59 Library and Archives Rodger, Professor of Psychological Medicine, University of Glasgow (1948–1973) University of Glasgow Greater Glasgow Health Conservation of the films of Thomas McClurg 076787 61 Board Archives Anderson, physiotherapist University of Glasgow Greater Glasgow Health Cataloguing and conservation of the records of 097852 61 Board Archives Gartnavel Hospital University of Leicester University of Leicester Cataloguing the library of the Leicester Medical 071039 46 Archives School Society

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