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‘A True Geneticist’s Geneticist’
The papers of Sir Walter Bodmer have been intriguing, not only in terms of what they reveal about the history of science and genetics, but also for providing snapshots into the networks of...
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Oxfam’s role in smallpox eradication
Oxfam jeeps and vaccination teams at work, 1974 (MS. Oxfam PRF BIH 014 Vol. 1) Files in the Project files and Directorate sequences of the Oxfam Archive shed some light on Oxfam’s small yet important...
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Baby Milk Campaigns and Eastern Europe
In 1983 Oxfam ran a Baby Milk campaign, which aimed to challenge the promotion of artificial baby milk in poor countries and promote breastfeeding. This is a good example of the type of campaigns...
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Scientists of the Future: Tim Berners-Lee
As mentioned in a previous post, Sir Walter Bodmer’s correspondence and research papers feature some of the most notable names from the world of science, and previous posts have drawn attention to just...
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Opposites Attract: Science and Archives
Following on from last year’s successful conference on women in science, hosted by London Metropolitan Archives, we were delighted to present a paper at this year’s ‘Opposites Attract: Science and...
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The Bodmer Archive
Julia & Walter Bodmer The catalogue of the archive of human and medical geneticists Sir Walter Bodmer and Lady Julia Bodmer is now available to researchers, which you can view here. The project to...
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Dorothy Hodgkin’s Nobel Prize – 50 years on
This year it’s 50 years since Dorothy Hodgkin won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1964, ‘for her determinations by x-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances’. She is still...
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Lecture slides of Rod Porter, immunologist
Rodney Robert Porter Last year the Bodleian received over one hundred glass lantern slides, prepared by R.R. Porter to illustrate his work on the structure and nature of antibody molecules. Porter...
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Oxfam archive catalogues arrive online
MS. Oxfam COM/1/8/51 (1981) : One of the many posters listed in the Oxfam Communications catalogue The first three catalogues to come out of the ongoing Oxfam archive project, compiled with the...
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First catalogue of Oxfam ‘project files’ now available
Researchers using the Oxfam archive now have access to a valuable new resource, with the completion of cataloguing of almost 2,400 ‘project files’ spanning 50 years. The files reveal the use and impact...
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