Today’s Explore Your Archive blog post takes a quick look at Blair-Bell’s ‘first baby’: The Gynaecological Visiting Society. RCOG co-founder William Blair-Bell was certainly a powerhouse in the world of obstetrics and gynaecology, juggling research, publication and teaching positions during his busy career. But even he knew that without a network of strong medical practitioners…
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Blair-Bell through the Eyes of a Friend and Colleague: extracts from the diaries of William Fletcher Shaw
As we edge ever closer to Explore Your Archive Week, it is only fitting that we give a nod to a figure who did much to capture and preserve the early history of the RCOG: College co-founder William Fletcher Shaw (1878-1961). It was Fletcher Shaw who first approached William Blair-Bell with the idea of founding…
“A restless, lovable torch-bearer”: Who Was William Blair-Bell?
In 48 hours, archives and heritage services around the country will kick off Explore Your Archive Week 2016! This event, run by The National Archives and the Archives and Records Association from 19th-27th November, brings our archives together to show off the best their collections have to offer. Here at the Archive of the Royal…
Blair-Bell 13: A man of different hats….
As I draw to the end of this phase in the cataloguing project, I begin to understand just how this collection of papers of Professor William Blair-Bell provides a wonderful story of him as a medic and a man during the 1920s and 1930s. The same themes recur over the three series of papers (S1,…
