Researching Lives: Medicine, science and archives

The British Records Association is pleased to hold its 2009 annual conference at, and in assocation with, the Wellcome Collection.  The theme is the use of medical and scientific archives in researching lives and the day is full of informative and exciting talks.  We hope you will be able to join us. 

The morning session speakers include Georgina Ferry discussing the use of personal and professional records in researching the lives of scientists, followed by Julianne Simpson and Helen Wakely of the Wellcome Library talking about early modern recipe books and their context in print and manuscript.  The morning session concludes with Simon Chaplin examining archives, specimens and patient identity in the Hunterian Museum project "Narrative Remains"

The afternoon starts with a talk by Dr Tim Boon, Science Museum, about the use of visual and paper archives in "Films of Fact" followed by Dr Paul Carter and Natalie Whistance of The National Archives discussing building case histories from fragments in "Living the Poor Life".  Professor Allan Jamieson, the Forensic Institute, Glasgow, will end the conference day with a talk intriguingly titled "Murder, she wrote...and taped, drew, and photographed".

After a short break for the BRA AGM, Dr Richard Horton, Editor, the Lancet, will deliver the Maurice Bond Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Conservation by Design. This is followed by a reception, sponsored by MicroFormat UK Ltd,  in Wellcome Library and will include the launch of Research Uses of Health Archives produced by the Health Archives and Records Group.

The Association thanks Wellcome Collection and Wellcome Trust for their support of this event.