Hi, I just wanted to mention that the Guild of One Name Studies are holding our first quarterly seminar for the year in London at the Wellcome Library, to explore Medical & Healthcare Records. We have two talks by Christopher Hilton, the Chief Archivist of the Wellcome Library who hold one of the world's (not just the UK's) most important collections. The Chief Archivist has been with the Wellcome Library for (I believe) 20+ years and is very aware of records which could be of interest to us. Over our two morning sessions he intends to cover "- An Overview of the Wellcome Library: origins, types of records found here, facilities offered, etc. - Development of profession and the records you can find from various eras – doctors - Development of profession and the records you can find from various eras – nurses - a little bit on patient records - miscellaneous other records that you can find at the Wellcome Library – Quakers, etc. - our digitisation activities, which will touch both on records I’ve already mentioned, and also on some formats to be discussed later (e.g. asylum records)" It is a huge collection and I hope the talk will also include - surgeons records, army records (some of which are deposited at the Wellcome), and Apothecaries records (It would be great if Christopher also covered the Trade Card and Ephemera collections at the Wellcome ... trailed in a previous seminar) Our afternoon session will provide us three further talks : Asylum Records by Elizabeth Finn (Collections Development Officer, Kent County Council); Catholic Medical Care Records by Carmen M Mangion PhD; and last but far from least (I have seen the PowerPoint slides) “Find the Midwife – Midwives Records” by Penny Hutchins (Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Archivist and Organisation Records Manager). It should be a really interesting day even if you don't believe you have any Medical connections in your family tree. And as with the seminar we held at the Modern Records Centre in Warwick University (where we covered Trade Union, Masonic, and Friendly Society Records) - this is a one off opportunity. So I do hope if you are in or near London and might be interested that you will consider booking. http://one-name.org/seminar_2015feb_medhealth.html Our official booking closing date is Sunday January 25th 2015 Very Best Regards Richard Heaton