A major oral history project to gather the life stories of British scientists has culminated in the launch of a new online archive by the British Library. ‘Voices of Science’ is drawn from a National Life Stories programme ‘An Oral History of British Science’, and features interviews with over 100 leading UK scientists and engineers, [...]
List members with interests in the history of genetics, agriculture, statistics, plant breeding, and Britain in the Twentieth Century, will be relieved to know that the archives of the National Institute of Agricultural Botany have now been catalogued and are ready for consultation. To access the archive handlist please visit niabarchive.org The site also contains [...]
London’s health records open up with the launch of London’s Pulse From smallpox to sun lamps, the health of London and Londoners over 125 years is uncovered with London’s Pulse (http://wellcomelibrary.org/moh/), an ambitious digitisation project from the Wellcome Library which launches today supported by Jisc. The online resource contains over 5000 fully searchable reports, from [...]