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Hi,

The Guild of One Name Studies are holding the first quarterly seminar for
the 2015 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 as family historians.

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) but we may well run out of time !

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 and I'll look forward to seeing you on the 7th.

http://one-name.org/seminar_2015feb_medhealth.html

Our official booking closing date for bookings is Sunday January
25th 2015

Very Best Regards

Richard Heaton

Guild (Semsub) member and Historic Newspaper and Ephemera enthusiast

Hi,
I have just joined the list . My name is Richard Heaton, I have been a
family historian since my early teens . I belong to the Guild of One Name
Studies (among other societies) where I form one of the team of the
subcommittee which organizes seminars.

Researching family history is often challenging so I hope this rare
opportunity to hear from experts how to research very early records might be
of interest to the list

The Guild of One Name Studies are holding a seminar on the subject of
Medieval and Early Modern Records. We organise four seminars a year and try
to cover as much of the country as possible. Our last was a very enjoyable
day at Nottingham and this seminar will take place on Saturday August 2nd
2014 at Fulneck School, Fulneck, Pudsey, West Yorkshire . The seminar cost,
including lunch and refreshments is only £18 and all are welcome.

09:30 – 10:00 Arrival ; Registration and Coffee
10.00 – 10:15 Welcome to the Seminar by Jackie Depelle
10:15 – 11:30 The Way Forward in Surname Studies – George Redmonds
11:30 – 11:45 Comfort Break
11:45 – 12:45 England’s Immigrants 1330-1550 – Residents Aliens in the
Latter Middle Ages – Bart Lambert
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch and opportunity to view the displays or visit the school
museum
14:00 – 15:00 Wakefield Court Rolls – Seven Centuries of evidence for Family
History – Sylvia Thomas, President Yorkshire Archaeological Society
15:00 – 15:30 Tea Break
15:30 – 16:30 Cause Papers in the Diocesan Courts of the Archbishopric of
York 1300-1858 – The Borthwick Institute
16:30 Close of Seminar

Should you be interested full details are on the events page of the Guild
website (see link below)

http://www.one-name.org/seminar_2014aug_medieval.html

Just to add that its rare this sort of seminar is held for family historians. It may be a quite a distance to travel to (I'll be travelling up from Bucks) and I doubt it will be repeated for a long time. 

Very Best Regards (as always)
Richard Heaton