Name: Hanna Clutterbuck
Date registered: July 14, 2011
Here are some of the news stories that have come across our desks at the MHL recently… …from Ryan Cordell’s blog ( via Digital Humanities Now), a post on digital humanities, interdisciplinarity, and “curricular incursion.” …an article from the UK’s Guardian newspaper …
From Brinton and Napheys’ The Laws of Health in Relation to the Human Form (1870). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
In an earlier post on this blog, we talked about the English attempts to locate Sir John Franklin, unsuccessful searcher after the Northwest Passage. Franklin left England in 1845 with two ships, the Erebus and Terror, on his second attempt to locate …
From Edouard Fournier’s Histoire des Enseignes de Paris (1884). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
In 1899, Joseph Ernest De Becker published an expose of the geisha quarter of the Japanese capital of Tokyo — then named Yedo — called the yoshiwara. De Becker ended up with a tome of over 500 pages, detailing the history, …
If you’re looking for a way to get involved in a digital humanities project, DHCommons might be just the website you’re looking for.
From the Ernst Leitz Firm’s Microscopes and Accessory Apparatus (1896). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
We’ve added a few new things to our Tools for Digital Research page…
From the War Department’s When You Go Home (1918?). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
In the April 1912 edition of Eugenics Review, an E. Schuster wrote about a new series of pamphlets, “New Tracts for the Times”: “We welcome the publication of this series, aiming as it does at awakening ‘an enlightened social conscience’…” (94)
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