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> New Grants Scheme awards £300,000 to Archives
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> The Wellcome Trust and the British Library have awarded just over £300,000
> to archival projects under the Research Resources in Medical History
> scheme.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Professor Hal Cook, Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History
> of Medicine at UCL, welcomed the awards:
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> '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.'
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> For full details of the successful projects go to
> http://www.bl.uk/concord/medical-grants0701.html
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> 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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