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UK Medical Heritage Library

The UK Medical Heritage Library is a collection of nearly 70,000 digitised texts from the history of medicine in the 19th century.

UK-MHL

UCL Library Services is one of 10 partner institutions that provided items for the collection, contributing over 2,800 books and pamphlets from five libraries with a medical specialism:

  • The Queen Square Institute of Neurology, Queen Square Library
  • The Institute of Orthopaedics Library
  • The Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health Library
  • The School of Pharmacy Library
  • The Joint Library of Ophthalmology, Moorfields Eye Hospital & UCL Institute of Ophthalmology

How to access the collections

Wellcome Library
Wellcome Digital Library

You can search the Wellcome Digital Library to view the items in the Wellcome Player.

Internet Archive
Internet Archive

The collection is also available on the Internet Archive.

Historical Texts
Historical Texts

Jisc retired their Historical Texts and Journal Archives resources in 2024. The collection compsed of four collections: Early English Books Online (EEBO), Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), the British Library 19th Century collection and the UK Medical Heritage Library (UKMH).

The British Library 19th Century collection and the UK Medical Heritage Library are freely available online.

UCL Digital Collections