Silas Mainville Burroughs : the missing story.

Date:
1999
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Description

An overview of the life and work of Silas Mainville Burroughs (1847-1895), pharmacist and co-founder of the Burroughs Wellcome pharmaceutical company. Based on the Burroughs family papers formerly in the possession of Richard and Joan Stillwell, of Finchampstead, Berks., now held in the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre of the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, London. Much of the image content of the programme is taken directly from letters, journals, photographs, memorabilia and artefacts in the Burroughs archive.

Publication/Creation

United Kingdom : Oxford Brookes University Television Studio for the Wellcome Trust, 1999.

Physical description

1 videocassette (VHS) (29 min.) : sound, color, PAL.
2 videocassettes (BETACAM SP) (29 min.) : sound, color, PAL.
1 videocassette (digibeta) (29 min.) : sound, color, PAL.
1 DVD (29 min.) : sound, color

Contributors

Copyright note

Wellcome Trust

Creator/production credits

Written by Drs. L.G. and Marie Goodwin. Produced and Directed by Dr. Max Blythe (Oxford Brookes Univ.) and Dr. L.G. Goodwin. Introduced by Sir Roger Gibbs (Wellcome Trust). Narrated by Dr. L.G. Goodwin.

Language note

In English

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