Tina Eyre — Curator for Collecting COVID at the History of Science Museum — shares her thoughts on the ethics of Contemporary Collecting

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Tina Eyre, Curator of the Collecting Covid Project at the History of Science Museum, shares contributions from women and girls to the Covid-19 pandemic response

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Giles Hudson traces the history of vaccine pioneer Waldemar Mordechai Haffkine's connections to Oxford's influential Acland family, and his 35-year friendship with groundbreaking photographer Sarah Acland.

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Georgina Ferry is an Oxford-based science writer, and author of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin: A Life (Granta 1998, reissued by Bloomsbury Reader 2014). In this guest blog post she discusses Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin’s work, the complicated process of drawing 3D structures as 2D figures and a computer programme called Pluto.  ** In 2015 the Bodleian Library ... [Read more...]

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