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All work and all play: unconventional sciences at the Warburg Library This blog post was written by Kella Lawrinson and Simone Monti, Graduate Library Trainees at the Warburg Institute as part of a series of posts on the theme of ‘Human Discovery: Experiencing Science’ for History Day 2022. -
From 15th Century to Today: How to Find Treasures in Linnean Collections Head of Collections, Isabelle Charmantier, and Librarian Will Beharrell explain how to navigate the Linnean Collections -
From woodcut to photograph: techniques of book illustration: This exhibition explores the history of the development of illustrative techniques from woodcuts through to photographs. -
Introduction to Special Collections This video offers an introduction to the Special Collections at Londo Metropolitan University -
Kings and Witches: exploring the sources of Macbeth in the IHR Library This blog was written by Michael Townsend, Collections and Metadata Librarian at the IHR Wohl Library. -
Poultry against the Pestilence: Early Modern Surgeons’ treatments for the Plague During a three hundred year period from the 14th to the 17th century plague physicians, surgeons, and other medical practitioners reprised ancient forms of knowledge, as well as devising innovative treatments for the disease, producing a wealth of textual evidence. Thomas Banbury, this year's HLCE grant holder, has scoured the library for plague tracts and found one of the most outlandish and superstitious-seeming recommendations called the "Live Chicken Cure". -
The Act of (Not) Eating in the Middle Ages This blog post was written by Maisie Brewster, one of the Library Graduate Trainees at the Warburg Institute Library, for History Day 2023 and explores library material relating eating in the Middle Ages. -
The Afterlife of Alchemy in the Warburg Institute Library’s Collection This blog explores the iconography of the ‘hermaphrodite’ from its origin in classical myth, to the alchemical works of medieval and early modern Europe. -
The mysteries behind a mediaeval manuscript of “women’s ills” This blog explores The Sekenesse of Wymmen by Gilbertus Anglicus, a mediaeval manuscript from the 1450s. -
The printed page This exhibition explores the development of the printing press and printing techniques. -
Unfolding Time: the Medieval Pocket Calendar Fewer than thirty concertina-fold almanacs are known to exist, this exhibition brings a group of them together for the first time and sets them alongside treasures from Lambeth Palace Library. -
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