New Grants Scheme awards £300,000 to Archives
The Wellcome Trust and the British Library have awarded just over £300,000
to archival projects under the Research Resources in Medical History scheme.
Launched in January 2001, Research Resources in Medical History is providing
£1 million over two years (2001-02) to support projects to open up access to
important documentary resources in medical history, or to help conserve
them.
The awarding Panel has now met twice and in July was able to announce
funding for the first group of successful applications. Grants will go to a
number of institutions, including London Metropolitan Archives, to complete
the cataloguing of a range of hospital archives; the Borthwick Institute in
York, to preserve the York NHS Trust archives; Dundee University, to
catalogue and conserve a range of important sets of papers relating to
medicine; and Exeter University, to catalogue the papers of the Royal
Western Counties Institution at Starcross, a psychiatric hospital. The
various projects will open up access to documents as diverse as the records
of the Court of Arches, relating to the prosecution of a midwife for
practising without a licence in 1665, and Emma Durham's diary of 1879 as a
nurse in the Zulu War. The first round of grants has focused entirely on
archives but a number of printed book projects are under consideration for
the next round.
There has been an overwhelming interest in the fund; over 80 preliminary
applications have been made to the scheme, worth about £5 million in all.
The number of worthwhile projects far exceeds the funding available, but we
hope nevertheless to be able to fund some good new work to open up important
new resources for medical historians.
Professor Hal Cook, Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of
Medicine at UCL, welcomed the awards:
'The grants to fund research resources in medical history
are very important for preserving and making available to present and future
generations a crucial part of the historical record that affects us all. We
are heartened by this effort of the Wellcome Trust, its Library, and the
British Library, and by the quality of the proposals submitted from all
around the country.'
For full details of the successful projects go to
http://www.bl.uk/concord/medical-grants0701.html
For further information about the scheme, including details of how to apply,
please see http://www.bl.uk/concord/medical-about.html
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