Sir Henry Wellcome's Archival Legacy and the Contemporary Historian

The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, London has an international reputation in the fields in which it specialises. The Archives and Manuscripts Section of the Library, staffed by a team of fully qualified archive professionals, contains unique collections of original material of value to many types of researcher. This article will deal briefly with the life and work of the man whose bequest established the Library on its present footing, Henry Wellcome, and then with the archive material that is held by the Library. The emphasis of the article is on material of interest to the contemporary historian, and contemporary medical archives

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