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Vet History PhD – Introducing Jane!
/0 Comments/in Archives, Book Collection, Guest post, Historical Collections Blog /by Lorna Cahill BannisterThis is the first of a series of blog posts by PhD student Jane Davidson, who began her studies with RCVS Knowledge and the University of Kent in Autumn 2019. Click here for more information about this project, or follow Jane’s Twitter feed and hashtag #phdbythesea I imagine that this period of change and […]
RCVS Vet History Transcription Project
/2 Comments/in Archives, Historical Collections Blog, RCVS Archives Project /by Lorna Cahill Bannister[Please note: Due to the high number of responses to this call for volunteers, we are currently unable to accept any more people onto the project. We hope to expand the project in the future, so please keep an eye on this blog for further opportunities.] The Vet History team have been quiet on this […]
Cataloguing the Correspondence of Henry Gray
/1 Comment/in Archives, birds, Historical Collections Blog, RCVS Archives Project /by Helena ClarksonAs the RCVS Knowledge Archives and Digitisation assistant, my main duties are to scan the historical material, upload it to our Digital Collections website and take part in the promotion of the collection. In recent months, I have worked on a side project: cataloguing the personal correspondence and research papers of veterinary surgeon Henry Gray (1865-1939). One of the […]
Digital Collections website is live!
/4 Comments/in Archives, Historical Collections Blog, RCVS Archives Project /by Lorna Cahill BannisterAfter months of development and tweaking, I am now very happy to show the world our fantastic new Digital Collections website! My most recent blog posts have described the cataloguing process – with the end result of the online archive catalogue. The Digital Collections site serves the other main aim of the RCVS Vet History […]
RCVS Archives Project: Next steps
/0 Comments/in Archives, Historical Collections Blog, RCVS Archives Project /by Lorna Cahill BannisterAs you will have gathered from the previous blog by our Archivist Lorna, the Archives Project here at RCVS Knowledge is well under way. Whilst Lorna is currently getting to grips with the collections (and Fred Smith’s handwriting) I have been recruited to work on the digital side of things. My name is Adele and since the […]
The RCVS stained glass
/0 Comments/in Archives, Historical Collections Blog /by Clare BoultonThe addition of the Coat of Arms of the University of Nottingham to the display of stained glass in the reception at Belgravia House, the RCVS HQ, has awakened interest in the history of the glass in this display and elsewhere in the building. As a result I spent several days pouring over 170 years of […]
The 1881 list of ‘Existing Practitioners’
/2 Comments/in Archives, Historical Collections Blog /by Clare BoultonIn the summer, with the help of our intern Josh, we were able to sort the bundles of applications for entry on the List of Existing Practitioners which were submitted to the RCVS in 1882. The List of Existing Practitioners came into being as a result of the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1881. The introduction to the […]
One of the professions youngest and brightest ornaments
/5 Comments/in Archives, Dogs, Historical Collections Blog, Horses /by Clare BoultonRecently there has been another of those coincidences that those of us who work in libraries love. Two quite separate enquiries which end up having something – or in this case someone – in common. The first enquiry was from a researcher who wanted to look at The quarterly journal of veterinary science in India and […]
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