Charles Birtwistle, Deaf Missioner – “he approves of the Oral Method for those able to profit by it.”

Friday, 19 October 2018

Charles Birtwistle was born in Rochdale in 1850.  Being deaf from birth, he was sent to the Old Trafford school in Manchester, where he learnt with the ‘silent’ or manual method.  His father was a warehouseman, according to the 1862 Manchester Annual Report, who paid £2 12s a year in fees.  He joined the school […]

A Missioner, two frauds, and UCL

Friday, 12 October 2018

R.W. Dodds (1866-1948) was from Cramlington, Newcastle.  He became a teacher of the deaf under B.H. Payne in Swansea, then at Old Trafford under Bessant, and finally went to Donaldson’s Hospital, Edinburgh, before becoming a missioner.  His first appointment as such was in Dundee, then later he was missioner in Belfast from 1903 to 1939.  […]

Trial access to Global Health (CABI)

Wednesday, 10 October 2018

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Green sustainability gold award for the UCL Great Ormond Street institute of Child health Library

Wednesday, 05 September 2018

New acquisitions – August 2018

Friday, 17 August 2018

The following new titles are available from the Royal Free site Library. Search the Library catalogue via Explore to find the shelf location for each item, or ask at the issue desk for help. Drug use in respiratory disease / edited by J.D. Wilson. Sydney : Williams & Wilkins And Associates Pty Limited, [1987] ROYAL FREE RFAC […]

July new acquisitions at Royal Free London Library Services

Monday, 09 July 2018

The following new titles are available from the Royal Free site Library. Search the Library catalogue via Explore to find the shelf location for each item, or ask at the issue desk for help. Lee, Arthur Bolles, 1849-1927, author. The microtomist’s vade-mecum (Bolles-Lee) : a handbook of the methods of animal and plant microscopi London : J. […]

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