Volunteers' Week 2023 (Part two)
Volunteers' Week - Part 2
Volunteers' Week is an annual celebration of the contribution millions of people make across the UK through volunteering in their communities.
Join us in this 2 part series in celebrating the work of the volunteers of the RCP Archives, Heritage library, and Museum team.
Volunteers' Week 2023
Volunteers' Week 2023 (Part one)
Volunteers' Week is an annual celebration of the contribution millions of people make across the UK through volunteering in their communities.
Join us in celebrating the work of the volunteers of the RCP archives, heritage library, and museum team.
Digging Deeper into the Unfamiliar
Caitlín Rankin-McCabe, PhD candidate from Durham University, researches a mysterious object in the RCP's current exhibition: Unfamiliar: A new look at the Royal College of Physicians’ collections
Rules for gouty people: eighteenth-century advice
The RCP Heritage Library manages the Heberden Library of the British Society for Rheumatology (BSR), a collection documenting the history of rheumatology from the 16th to 20th centuries. Today on the blog we take a look at a recent addition to the Heberden Library: Thomas Short’s, Discourse on tea, sugar, milk, made-wines, spirits, punch, tobacco (1750) which contains his ‘plain and useful rules for gouty people’.
A building for all seasons: the RCP as a film set
WARNING – SPOILERS!
The RCP is housed in a Grade I listed building designed by celebrated architect Sir Denys Lasdun. The striking modernist building with its unexpected historic interiors has been popular with film and television producers since it was opened in 1964. In this blog we revisit some of the sets the RCP has played host to in recent years. Why not come and visit us to see where you favourite scene was filmed?
Ladies’ Night at the Library: a history of some RCP events
Rare books and special collections librarian, Katie Birkwood explores the history of Ladies' Night at the RCP.
Making Unfamiliar: Theo Deproost interview
Co-curator of exhibition ‘Unfamiliar’, Theo Deproost is a fine-art and commercial photographer whose practice focuses on discovering and re-interpreting the hidden gems of museum stores. We recently chatted with Theo about the experience of co-curating at the RCP:
Making Unfamiliar - Debbie Jegede interview
Debbie Jegede is a lead physician associate in the emergency department at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, a member of the RCP’s Diversity and Inclusion Delivery Group, and co-curator of our current exhibition ‘Unfamiliar’. We recently chatted with Debbie about the experience of co-curating at the RCP:
Unfamiliar exhibition launch
Tuesday 24 January was an exciting day for the archive, heritage library and museum team – the launch of new exhibition, ‘Unfamiliar’.
Diana Kimber and Louise Darche: leading lights in New York nursing
A chance find in a newly catalogue book led to the story of two leading lights in nursing teaching in New York in the late 19th century: women who devoted their lives to their work and to each other.