Stories
- Article
A brief history of ventilation
As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.
- Article
Vivekananda’s journey
How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
- Article
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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Hill, Norman Walter (1852-c.1920), collector
Date: late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: MS.7044- Books
The Bamforth collection - saucy postcards / Marcus Hearn.
Hearn, MarcusDate: 2013- Books
Victorian Turkish baths / Malcolm Shifrin.
Shifrin, MalcolmDate: 2015- Books
- Online
The development of narrative practices in medicine c.1960 - c.2000 : the transcript of a witness seminar held by the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, Queen Mary, University of London, on 18th June 2013 / edited by E M Jones and E M Tansey.
Date: 2015- Books
Concerning beards : facial hair, health and practice in England 1650-1900 / Alun Withey.
Withey, AlunDate: 2021