“Permit me to lay before you the bladder of Mr Gardiner”

21 August 2013 by Noah Moxham

Medicine in public in eighteenth-century London Poor Mr Gardiner’s bladder was to be the subject of a great deal of…

Wolfson Foundation catalogue goes live

28 February 2013 by Fiona Keates

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve recently made a catalogue of the Wolfson Foundation’s grant files available online.

4 February 2013 by Joanna Corden

I was interested to see that the Natural History Museum has recently been reviewing all its materials on the Piltdown…

15 January 2013 by Katherine Ford

I’ve spent some time searching through our card catalogue lately, a fascinating but occasionally bewildering resource. During one of these…

20 September 2012 by James Elder

Cataloguing manuscripts can be great fun, but if the author’s handwriting is bad, it can become a form of exquisite…