The sun is out and there are ice cream vans in the square! It can only mean one thing! It's #ViewDay at St Bartholomew's Hospital ! Come and find us in the square to out about our collections, the five century history of View Day, and what it meant to 'view' the hospital and its patients

And our thanks to the brilliant Youth Empowerment Squad for joining us as Community Curators for another great Bringing the Collections Closer project workshop🙏
We can't wait to share the wonderful stories of The Royal London Hospital history our Curators are finding in the collections!

👀NEW BLOG POST - Lives in the Ledgers👀
Find out how our participants in our current project are helping us uncover new details from our collections - and how you can take part too!
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New blog - the story of Barbara the Barberess of Barts 💈

All 1700s London life lurks within - Fleet weddings, syphilis, perukes, watch-makers, a jury of Matrons, foundling babies and 'improper conduct'...

Have a read! 📚 ⬇️ #histmed Barts Health Archives St Bartholomew's Hospital

‘there is something deeply satisfying about finding new people like Barbara, who have no biographies, no portraits, and no commemorative plaques. They are compelling, but fugitive - a whole life glimpsed in a line or two of ink and then gone.’ 😍😍😍😍😍

As we wave goodbye to the excitement of the #Barts900 anniversary year, here is a little 'snippet' to enjoy over the bank holiday weekend!✂️✂️

With huge thanks to Emma Shepley for this fabulous guest post to launch our new archives blog series!

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📢Issue 5 of our newsletter is out now! 👀
Contact us to join our mailing list, to keep up to date on our news and projects - or access this and past issues in the 'Newsletters' section on our website
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Have you got any ideas Barts_Radiotherapy The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust The Christie NHS ? Thanks!

It's #WhatIsItWednesday again - but this time, we don't have the answer! According to a 1990 note from the radiotherapist who gave them, they were used in radiotherapy for breast cancer, and are of a design unique to The Royal London Hospital. Can you help us find out how they were used?

Barts Heritage is recruiting volunteers to lead tours of the Great Hall at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. For more information please visit:
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It's been really great to share what we've learnt, and how the service has developed, through a longstanding collaboration with one of our researchers, and to talk about the unique records of the Whitechapel Clinic #HAP24

A reminder that you can hear James Grenfell's wonderful discussion of his work as Chaplain at Whipps Cross Hospital as part of our Voices of Whipps Cross series on our YouTube channel
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Today is #RareDiseaseDay . Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP) is a rare genetic condition in which the soft tissues are gradually replaced by bone, it was first described by St. Bart’s surgeon, John Freke, in 1736.
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And we still have spaces available at workshops in April and May, so if you'd be interested in becoming a Community Curator with us, get in touch!!

Brilliant 1st co-curation sessions this week for our The Royal London Hospital project, 'Bringing the Collections Closer'.
Staff, patients, & local residents are helping to select items to feature in new digital heritage displays for patient spaces in the hospital, coming later this year

Great to be at the official Garrod building reopening this evening.
We were thrilled to help bring this central space for Barts and The London, Queen Mary staff and students alive with the history of the medical & dental school, through images, portraits & trophies from our collections

A train line named after a historic East London hospital? We're on board with that idea! We hold the surviving historic collections of the Mildmay, originally known as the Mildmay Mission Hospital #LondonOverground
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Happy #PancakeDay , have a flippin' great time!

#ShroveTuesday #Pancakes

Part 1 of a double bill of medical collections this week. One of my favourite classes, a trip to Barts Health Archives via Great St Bartholomew with my Humanities at Westminster students. Thinking about place, science and history of med practise through some amazing objects!

#CollectionsFortnight has just flown by! We have added 80 boxes of 16th-19th C property deeds & five boxes of photos to the catalogue, processed 60 accessions, & checked over 1,900 entries on our locations database! And still found time for a digital archiving training day. Phew!