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About Lorna Cahill Bannister
This author has yet to write their bio.Meanwhile lets just say that we are proud Lorna Cahill Bannister contributed a whooping 13 entries.
Entries by Lorna Cahill Bannister
Archives on your Digital Doorstop – Overcome the Lockdown!
6th July 2020 /0 Comments/in Archives, Historical Collections Blog, RCVS Archives Project /by Lorna Cahill BannisterThis Friday is our Annual Royal College Day – which due to the COVID-19 pandemic will be the first to involve a virtual AGM! The Annual General Meeting has taken place since the very beginning of the RCVS in 1844, with official announcements published in the London Gazette, and voting for new Council members recorded […]
Vet History PhD – Introducing Jane!
30th April 2020 /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
2nd April 2020 /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 […]
A delve into veterinary case notes…
30th May 2019 /0 Comments/in Archives, Guest post, Historical Collections Blog, Horses, RCVS Archives Project /by Lorna Cahill BannisterFrom February to April this year, RCVS Knowledge were very pleased to welcome Claudia Watts, an MA History student from King’s College London. As part of her studies, Claudia was tasked with selecting highlights from Fred Smith’s veterinary case notes, and digitising and transcribing them for us. The results are now published in our Digital […]
Living Pictures – Vet History Podcast
15th June 2017 /0 Comments/in Archives, Historical Collections Blog /by Lorna Cahill BannisterThis year, RCVS Knowledge were very pleased to participate in an internship scheme organised by the Kings College London History department. MA student Abbie Latham spent a few months with us, reading and transcribing Fred Smith’s Boer War letters. She also recorded the following podcast, in which she explores aspects of the letters relating to […]
Happy 160th Birthday Fred Smith!
19th April 2017 /3 Comments/in Archives, Historical Collections Blog, RCVS Archives Project /by Lorna Cahill BannisterToday, 19th April, marks 160 years since the birth of Frederick Smith in 1857. I’m going to take this opportunity to tell you a bit more about the man, and what I like about him, after spending over a year working with his papers. Potted History of Smith Smith was born in Hull, […]
Digital Collections website is live!
6th March 2017 /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 […]
Cataloguing Fred Smith Part 3: Say what you see
30th November 2016 /4 Comments/in Archives, Historical Collections Blog, RCVS Archives Project /by Lorna Cahill BannisterAfter completing the listing and arranging of the Frederick Smith collection, I now move onto the nitty gritty of archive work – writing descriptions. You can see the descriptions I’ve completed so far on our newly launched archive catalogue, and I have linked to specific records on the catalogue as examples below. This […]
Cataloguing Fred Smith Part 2: Order from chaos
21st September 2016 /6 Comments/in Archives, Historical Collections Blog, RCVS Archives Project /by Lorna Cahill BannisterIn my previous blog post about cataloguing Fred Smith, I had got as far as a huge database of information about all of the papers in the collection. In this post I will describe the next stage of the process – archival arrangement. An archivist’s job, when making historic material more accessible to researchers, is […]
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