Conference Itinerary - 2009
Researching Lives: Medicine, Science & Archives
In association with the Wellcome Library
Tuesday 8th December 2009
At the Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE
| 9.45 am | Registration |
| 10.15 am | Welcome Bob Roberts, Chair of the British Records Association |
| 10.20 am | Personal and professional records in the lives of scientists Georgina Ferry, Science Writer |
| 11.00 am | The secret ingredient: hunting early modern recipes and their context in print and manuscript Julianne Simpson, Rare Books Librarian, Wellcome Library & Helen Wakely, Archivist, Wellcome Library |
| 11.40 am | Project 'Narrative Remains': archives, specimens and patient Identity in the Hunterian Museum Simon Chaplin, Director of Museums and Special Collections, The Royal College of Surgeons |
| 12.30 am | Lunch |
| 14.00 pm | Cross-fertilising visual and paper archives: writing Films of Fact Dr Tim Boon, Chief Curator, Science Museum |
| 14.40 pm | Care and neglect: building cases from fragments Dr Paul Carter, Special Projects Manager and Director of the 'Living the Poor Life' Project, The National Archives Natalie Whistance, Records Co-ordinator and Cataloguing Officer, The National Archives |
| 15.20 pm | Tea |
| 15.45 pm | Murder, she wrote ... and taped, drew, and photographed Professor Allan Jamieson, Director, The Forensic Institute, Glasgow |
| 16.30 pm | British Records Association: Annual General Meeting (followed by a short break) |
| 17.00 pm | Maurice Bond Lecture, sponsored by Conservation by Design Dr Richard Horton, Editor, the Lancet |
| 18.00 pm | Reception in Wellcome Library, sponsored by MicroFormat UK Limited. Includes the launch of Research Uses of Health Archives produced by the Health Archives and Records Group |