Volume 18. 'Foot and Mouth Disease: The 1967 Outbreak and its Aftermath'

Series consists of papers, correspondence, photographs, cassette tapes and digital material related to the seminar on "Foot and Mouth Disease: The 1967 Outbreak and its Aftermath", which was held at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, on 11 December 2001. The seminar was part of the Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine meetings also known as the Witness Seminars. The transcript of this seminar was published as Volume 18 of the Witness Seminar series, L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey (editors), Foot and Mouth Disease: The 1967 Outbreak and its Aftermath, (London: Wellcome Trust, 2003).

The participants for the seminar were; Dr Maurice Allen; Mary Brancker; Professor Leslie Brent; Gareth Davies; Dr Tony Garland; Professor Alan Glynn; Sherwin Hall; Keith Meldrum; The Duke of Montrose; James Morris; Noel Mowat; Hugh Platt; Dr Walter Plowright; Lord Plumb; Howard Rees; Dr Alan Richardson; Professor David Rowlands; Chris Schermbrucker; Dr Bob Sellers; Lord Soulsby (Chair); Dr Tilli Tansey; Angus Taylor; Ken Tyrrell; and Abigail Woods.

The editors of the published transcript were L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey with an introduction by Dr Lise Wilkinson.

The meeting organisers were Dr Abigail Woods, Dr Daphne Christie and Dr David Aickin.

Others present at the meeting included; Dr Derek Bangham; Dr John Beale; Dr Mary Cotes; Professer Leslie Collier; David Lloyd; Tom Roper; Dr Lise Wilkinson; and Dr Sarah Wilmot.

Apologies sent by; Sir Derek Andrews; Roger Blamire; Professor Fred Brown; Professor Chris Bostock; Dr Alex Donaldson; Norman Ellis; Sir Brian Follett; John Gripper; Donald Martin; Leonard Napolitan; Hubert Skinner; Anthony John Stevens; Dr David Tyrrell; and Dr David Rhys Williams.

Digital material includes recordings, papers and photographs relating to the seminar and can be found under Transcripts.

1968-2003

10 files and 1 digital item