Stories
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Conserving Audrey
Elena describes how specially designed storage allows Audrey’s scrapbooks to retain all traces of her creative process, although their intrinsic fragility means deterioration is almost inevitable.
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Digitising Audrey
Building digital images of what Audrey created means that her work can be frozen in time – for the digital version, at least, the process of decay is halted, and any number of people can view it without the risk of damaging it.
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Hunting lost plants in botanical collections
A bark specimen at Kew recalls the story of a South American man who harvested the most potent source of the only effective malaria treatment available in the late 1800s. Killed for his work and forgotten by history, Manuel Mamani was a victim of the colonial juggernaut.
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In the tracks of Derek Jarman’s tears
Researcher E K Myerson shares her moving encounters with the personal papers of artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman.
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Environmental conservation
Date: 1974-- Archives and manuscripts
Corporate photography shoots C0010149 - C0012901
Date: c.2000-c.2002Reference: WT/B/11/1/36Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
Thompson, W. H. - Food Values with a Note on the Conservation of Irish Food Supplies
Date: 1914Reference: DGH1/6/18/202Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
Guardbooks (Scrapbooks)
Burroughs Wellcome and Co LtdDate: 1880 - 1957Reference: WF/M/GBPart of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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Observations sur le tétanos, ses différences, ses causes, ses symptômes, avec le traitement de cette maladie & les moyens de la prévenir. Précédées d'un discours sur les moyens de perfectionner la médecine-pratique sous la zone torride. Suivies d'observations sur la santé des femmes enceintes dans ces régions ; leurs maladies aux différentes époques de la grossesse ; l'accouchement & ses suites ; la conservation des nouveau-nés jusqu'à l'adolescence. Terminées par le rapprochement des vices & des abus des hôpitaux d'entre les tropiques, & les moyens d'y remédier / par M. Dazille.
Dazille, Jean-Barthélémi, 1732-1812.Date: 1788