Stories
- Article
The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
- Photo story
Obesity and Britain’s boys
Six young men and six experiences of being overweight. Find out how these boys and their loved ones feel about this stigmatising issue.
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The secret lives of Britain’s first Black physicians
Dr Annabel Sowemimo explores the web of connections between early Black British doctors, the role of empire in West Africa and the pernicious reach of scientific racism.
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When the sun goes down
Despite the country’s colonial and industrial dominion, the finest minds of Victorian Britain began to fear the devastating effects of declining natural resources. Even the death of the sun.
Catalogue
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Reference books for the historian of science : a handlist / compiled by S.A. Jayawardene.
Jayawardene, S. A.Date: 1982- Archives and manuscripts
The Museum of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
Date: 1916-1923Reference: MS.2905Part of: Holmes, Edward Morell (1843-1930), botanist and lecturer in materia medica- Journals
Annual report and accounts.
Science Museum Group (Great Britain)Date: 2012-- Journals
Annual report and accounts.
National Museum of Science & Industry (Great Britain)- Books
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An essay on somnambulism, or sleep-walking, produced by animal electricity and magnetism. As well as by sympathy, &c. As performed by the Rev. John Bell, Member of the Philosophical Harmonic Society of France, Fellow Correspondent to the Museum at Paris, and the Only Person Authorised to Teach and Practise that Science in Great Britain, Ireland, &c.
Fournel, Jean-François, 1745-1820.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]