The Quarterly Journal of Veterinary Science in India and Army Management
Cataloguing the Correspondence of Henry Gray
As the RCVS Knowledge Archives and Digitisation assistant, my…
Living Pictures – Vet History Podcast
This year, RCVS Knowledge were very pleased to participate in…
Happy 160th Birthday Fred Smith!
Today, 19th April, marks 160 years since the birth of Frederick…
Introducing Helena!
Hi, my name is Helena and I am the new Archive and Digitisation…
Digital Collections website is live!
After months of development and tweaking, I am now very happy…
A Norwegian White Christmas
This month marks the 75th anniversary of an important military…
Cataloguing Fred Smith Part 3: Say what you see
After completing the listing and arranging of the Frederick Smith…
Cataloguing Fred Smith Part 2: Order from chaos
In my previous blog post about cataloguing Fred Smith, I had…
Bracy Clark’s hoof – an update
I am delighted to say that thanks to the generosity of members…
William Moss: one man’s journey through the Somme and Beyond
1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme, is a day…
Cataloguing Fred Smith Part 1: Asking questions
Now that over seven months have passed since I started this…
Cataloguing the Correspondence of Henry Gray
As the RCVS Knowledge Archives and Digitisation assistant, my main duties are to scan the historical material, upload it to our Digital Collections website and take part in the promotion of the collection. In recent months, I have worked on a side project: cataloguing the personal correspondence and research papers of veterinary surgeon Henry Gray (1865-1939). One of the […]
Living Pictures – Vet History Podcast
This year, RCVS Knowledge were very pleased to participate in an internship scheme organised by the Kings College London History department. MA student Abbie Latham spent a few months with us, reading and transcribing Fred Smith’s Boer War letters. She also recorded the following podcast, in which she explores aspects of the letters relating to […]
Happy 160th Birthday Fred Smith!
Today, 19th April, marks 160 years since the birth of Frederick Smith in 1857. I’m going to take this opportunity to tell you a bit more about the man, and what I like about him, after spending over a year working with his papers. Potted History of Smith Smith was born in Hull, in 1857, […]
Introducing Helena!
Hi, my name is Helena and I am the new Archive and Digitisation assistant. My role, like Adele’s before me, is to assist in the digitisation and online accessibility of documents within the archive and historical book collection. I hope to one day become a fully qualified archivist so this role is a wonderful opportunity […]
Digital Collections website is live!
After months of development and tweaking, I am now very happy to show the world our fantastic new Digital Collections website! My most recent blog posts have described the cataloguing process – with the end result of the online archive catalogue. The Digital Collections site serves the other main aim of the RCVS Vet History […]
A Norwegian White Christmas
This month marks the 75th anniversary of an important military operation which paved the way for true ‘combined operations’ involving the Royal Navy, RAF and Army; an operation in which two members of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons took part. In 1941 Vaagso, a coastal town in Southern Norway, lying between Trondheim and Bergen, […]
Cataloguing Fred Smith Part 3: Say what you see
After completing the listing and arranging of the Frederick Smith collection, I now move onto the nitty gritty of archive work – writing descriptions. You can see the descriptions I’ve completed so far on our newly launched archive catalogue, and I have linked to specific records on the catalogue as examples below. This stage essentially […]
Cataloguing Fred Smith Part 2: Order from chaos
In my previous blog post about cataloguing Fred Smith, I had got as far as a huge database of information about all of the papers in the collection. In this post I will describe the next stage of the process – archival arrangement. An archivist’s job, when making historic material more accessible to researchers, is […]
Bracy Clark’s hoof – an update
I am delighted to say that thanks to the generosity of members of the Central Veterinary Society we have been able to have some conservation work carried out on Bracy Clark’s pasteboard model hoof. At the same time the surface dirt was removed which means that you can now read the labels much more clearly as you can see […]
William Moss: one man’s journey through the Somme and Beyond
1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme, is a day remembered as one of the worst in British military history. The attack commenced at 7.30am; by the end of the day, 19,240 British soldiers had been killed and three times that number injured. The battle lasted 140 days, and amongst […]
Cataloguing Fred Smith Part 1: Asking questions
Now that over seven months have passed since I started this project – it is time for another update! Most of my time so far has involved looking closely at all of the archive material relating to Major General Sir Frederick Smith, which is the first stage of cataloguing the collection. I needed to look […]