Welcome to the 47th edition of the Giant’s Shoulders Blog Carnival! We’re delighted to have this opportunity to showcase the latest and greatest online writing (and talking!) on a variety of topics including 20th century literary figures, astronomy, alchemy, geography, publishing, and letter-writing.
In alpha order by blogger’s last name (or first name or blog name if that’s all we could find!), then, and divided only by media type, here is your recommended reading list: Continue reading
We’ve added a few things to our Tools for Digital Research page… Continue reading
Have you checked out what the MHL’s latest additions are? There are a couple of ways you can see what’s new to our collection. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
We’ve added a few new things to our Tools for Digital Research page… Continue reading
Going through back issues of journals is a first step for many researchers embarking on a new project. Large databases like JSTOR and ProQuest can be very important for this kind of work but they are also expensive and many smaller, non-academic libraries cannot afford them or do not have enough users interested to make a license worth their while. Continue reading
The LOUISiana Digital Library has 22 participating libraries, archives, museums, and other historical organizations contributing material to document the history and culture of Louisiana. The LDL has a wide variety of resources available, including textual documents, photographs, video clips, and medical illustrations. Included in this vast amount of material is a great deal to do with the history of medicine and science, both in Louisiana and elsewhere. Continue reading
We’ve recently added a few new resources to our Tools for Digital Research page and wanted to take a minute to draw them to your attention.
The Giant’s Shoulders: This is a monthly collation of author-submitted blog posts from other blogs on the history of science and medicine. For an example, check out the most recent one from around Halloween time, hosted by the Early Modern Experimental Philosophy blog at the University of Otago, featuring posts on anecdotes about vampires, the history of witches, Alfred Russell Wallace, and the prevalence of syphilis among Romans. Submissions are open for the next monthly round-up!
Medical Museion: The website includes the digital content from the realworld Medical Museion, located in Copenhagen and includes a virtual museum and blog content.
UCL Museums & Collections: A blog covering material from University College London’s collections, including the Grant Museum of Zoology, the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, and the Science Collections.
Morbid Anatomy: A blog from the Morbid Anatomy Library and Cabinet collection in New York, a research library and private collection open to interested researchers by appointment. Morbid Anatomy covers topics including medical museums, cabinets of curiosity, and the history of medicine, death, and society.
The NLM, as well as being a valued partner in the MHL, has also created a great database of medical images, Images from the History of Medicine.
The database features a variety of images, including postcards, broadsides, posters, public health advertisements, and caricatures among others. Images features almost 70,000 images from the historical collections at NLM. The bulk of the images are from prior to World War II, but later public health images are also included, such as images from public health campaigns against drug abuse and AIDS. The collection is also international, featuring image material from a number of countries in various languages. Continue reading
The MHL collection is growing fast. We now have more than 12,000 items in the Internet Archive so I created this word cloud to help you see what’s in our collection. Clicking on a term will take you to the content. Enjoy!
