Recent Posts Tagged With '20th century'

• Re-edit medical history film

  Posted on Wednesday September 30th, 2009 at 07:46 in Film, surgery, youtube, tuberculosis, 20th century, digital library, digitisation

  A new addition to the Wellcome Film project has been made: downloadable videos to keep, edit and watch as you wish from your own computer. The videos are H.264 (MPEG4) format and broadband resolution (2Mbps), easily playable by both Mac and PC users...

• Apple pie order

  Posted on Thursday July 2nd, 2009 at 04:59 in drawings, 20th century, iconography, wellcome library, addenbrooke's hospital

  Ayurveda all in a row The Wellcome Library is closed this week (29 June-5 July) to enable the staff to carry out numerous stocktaking and ordering projects for the benefit of its users. For example books on the open shelves inevitably get out of orde...

• Ode to muscle relaxants

  Posted on Tuesday June 2nd, 2009 at 05:27 in poetry, Film, 20th century, muscle relaxants

  Lucy Smee, Assistant Curator in the Moving Image and Sound Department at the Wellcome Library, has been cataloguing moving images for the Wellcome Film project since June 2008. As part of her work, Lucy has seen every single title digitised so far, c...

• Wellcome Film at Learning on Screen

  Posted on Wednesday May 6th, 2009 at 09:59 in Film, diabetes, conferences, 20th century, insulin

  The Wellcome Film project was showcased at the 2009 Learning on Screen Conference, hosted by the Wellcome Library and run by the BUFVC on 7-8 April. Held in the Auditorium of the Wellcome Collection building on 183 Euston Road, London, the event focu...

• Centenary: Stacey Hopper, born 28 April 1909

  Posted on Tuesday April 28th, 2009 at 07:23 in World War II, cartoons, prints, drawings, malaria, syphilis, adolf hitler, 20th century, iconography, typhus, dysentery, wellcome library

  The artist Stacey Hopper was born exactly 100 years ago, at Aberamon, South Wales, on 28 April 1909. Thousands of people will have seen his work without knowing his name. His claim to fame is that, in the role of cartoonist and illustrator, he saved...

• "Nature's art forms"

  Posted on Tuesday April 7th, 2009 at 10:15 in Germany, biology, prints, natural history, 20th century, iconography, 19th century, wellcome library, ernst haeckel, new acquisition

  The Wellcome Library has acquired a set of Kunstformen der Natur ("Nature's art forms") by the German evolutionary biologist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919). Kunstformen der Natur is described by Breidbach as the last and most ambitious of Haeckel's major...

• Acts of Mercy by Frederick Cayley Robinson: now back on display

  Posted on Tuesday March 31st, 2009 at 04:00 in paintings, 20th century, iconography, works of mercy, wellcome library, frederick cayley robinson, middlesex hospital

  Hmm, these big white walls at the entrance to the Wellcome Library look rather bare and cold.What does it look like if we try putting a painting up? One with warm colours, like one of the four paintings of the Acts of Mercy by Frederick Cayley Robins...