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Lothian Health Services Archive is pleased to announce our exhibition on
"Clinics, Clubs and Societies", celebrating 25 years of collecting by
LHSA, has been extended until 30th November 2005. Please see our
original message below for further details.
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Clinics, Clubs and Societies: an exhibition celebrating 25 years of
collecting by Lothian Health Services Archive Edinburgh University
Library, 27th September - 28th October 2005
Twenty-five years ago Lothian NHS Board and the University of Edinburgh,
with support from the National Archives of Scotland, entered into a
partnership to store and provide access to Lothian's historical NHS
Public Records and related material. The collection was originally
housed in the Medical Archive Centre, High School Yards, which was
officially opened on 26 September 1980. In 1988 the Centre moved to the
University Main Library and was subsequently renamed Lothian Health
Services Archive (LHSA). As one might expect, LHSA is rich in hospital
records. The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE) is Scotland's oldest
hospital (1729) in the modern sense of the word. Edinburgh's other
"Royals", providing in-patient mental health, maternity and paediatric
care, have equally distinguished histories, and large quantities of
their records have survived. Following the on-going implementation of
Lothian's Acute Services Strategy, a number of specialty and cottage
hospitals have also closed, which has led to further accessions of this
kind.
This exhibition moves the focus away from hospitals per se towards other
health-related institutions, such as clinics, clubs and societies, in
order to illustrate the diversity of LHSA's collection as a whole. The
records of the Royal Victoria Chest Clinic, the RIE Residents' Club and
the Society for the Relief of the Destitute Sick have been chosen for
display from amongst a surprising range of similar institutions, which
is even broader if one takes into account various associations, leagues,
councils, unions and missions as well. These types of institution
suggest that, as well as preserving the records of past and present
hospitals, it is also important for local NHS archives to collect
material relating to medicine and health care in the community.
The exhibition is open to the public, free of charge, from 9.30am -
4.30pm, Monday to Friday, in the Exhibition Room, Wolfson Technology
Resource Centre, Edinburgh University Library, George Square, Edinburgh.
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Jenny McDermott
Deputy Archivist
Lothian Health Services Archive
Edinburgh University Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ
Tel: +44 (0) 131 651 1758
Fax: +44 (0) 131 650 6863
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URL: http://www.lhsa.lib.ed.ac.uk
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