Showing posts with label exploration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label exploration. Show all posts
Monday, February 27, 2012

Extreme traveller of the early C20th

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John Fulton Barr as a young man A small collection of papers of John Fulton Barr (1868-1954) has just been catalogued and is now available ...
Wednesday, June 8, 2011

A life on (or under) the ocean wave - World Oceans Day

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When we think of planet Earth seen from space, the chances are that we think of the colour green. Our planet occupies the comfortable middle...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Wellcome to the South Pole

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Last Sunday, BBC2 broadcast The Secrets of Scott's Hut , a documentary which featured presenter Ben Fogle journeying to Antarctica, to ...
Thursday, July 22, 2010

Pole to Pole with the Wellcome Library

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The latest issue of Wellcome News - the Wellcome Trust's quarterly magazine rounding up its latest activities - contains an article bas...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Travel Writing Sources Guide

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Given the restrictions on air travel of late, it is perhaps timely to flag up a new guide to unpublished Travel Writing in the Wellcome Lib...
Monday, July 20, 2009

Wellcome in Space

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Over the last few weeks, there have been many commemorations in the media of the 40th anniversary of the first manned mission to land on t...
Saturday, February 21, 2009

Item of the Month – February 2009

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A toast in Abyssinia. Wellcome Library no. 667946i It could be said without fear of contradiction that wherever you are in the Wellcome Lib...