MA , Archives Studies

MA , Modern History

HONOROFIC:2001 - Andrew J. Moyer Lecturer at United States Department of Agriculture, National Center for Agricultural UtilizationResearch, Peoria, Illinois, USA The first historian and first non-scientist to deliver this annual lecture.SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:History of the Newcastle upon Tyne Church High School for Girls, 1885-1985 (Newcastle, 1985)“The Lodges of the Durham Miners’ Association, 1869-1926”, Northern History, xxiii, 1987, pp. 138-152Light out of Darkness, the coalfields of the North-East on Film (Gateshead, 1987)(co-ed. With A. Barrett) St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, an historical anthology (London, 1990)St Mary’s Hospital, an illustrated history (London, 1991)(with A.E Rodin, C. Cooke), “Arthur Conan Doyle in London: St Mary’s Hospital”, Baker Street Miscellanea, lxxiv, 1994, pp.37-48“Sir Alexander Fleming - beyond penicillin”, Society of General Microbiology Quarterly, xxii/i, February 1995, pp.4-5.The Leavesden Hospital Story, 1870-1995 (St. Albans, 1995)(with D.E. Eveleigh), “Preservation of fungal herbarium cultures: the sale of an Alexander Fleming Penicillium notatumpreserved medallion”, Society for Industrial Microbiology News, xlvii, 3, May/June 1997, pp 116-118.Regular columns in St. Mary’s Gazette, 1990-1998, and St. Mary’s Hospital Past and Present Nurses’ League Journal since1990.Biographical articles commissioned by New Dictionary of National Biography (Francis Sibson, Sir William Henry Broadbent,Dorothy Bannon, Mary Milne, Charlotte Bentley).I buoni risultati educativi raggiunti dal museo con pochi fondi: l’esperienza dell’ Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum diLondra in [E. Nardi, ed.] Un sabato con I musei: I musei presentano le loro esperienze didattiche (Rome, 2000, and publishedon internet at htpp://rousseau2.educ.uniroma3.it/didamus)Hospitals and Nursing 1845-1948, a century of healthcare at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington (St Mary’s Hospital ArchivesEducation resource pack), (London, 2000)Alexander Fleming and the discovery of penicillin (Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum Education resource pack) (London,2000)Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum, a guide (London, 2000)Harperbury Hospital from Colony to Closure, 1928-2001 (St Albans, 2001)(With M. Lorentzon), “Rachel Williams as mentor of matrons: correspondence with Rachel Williams of St Mary’s Hospital,”Journal of Nursing Management, 11 (2003), 266-274Penicillin Man: Alexander Fleming and the Antibiotic Revolution (Stroud, Sutton Publishing, 2004)(Paperback edition, 2005)“The history of penicillin from discovery to the drive to production”, Pharmaceutical Historian, 34/3 (2004), 37-43The Pox: the Life and Near Death of a Very Social Disease (Stroud, Sutton Publishing, 2006)Work in progressI am currently working on the connections between war and medicine for a book provisionally entitled Fighting Fit: Health,Medicine and War in the Twentieth-century scheduled for publication by Sutton in 2008.Recent guest lectures New Jersey Agricultural Experimentation Station, Rutgers’ University, New Jersey, 2003Royal College of Nursing, London, 2003London Scottish Regiment, London, 2003Shaw Society, London 2004International Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery (ISMICS) annual conference, London 2004Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, London, 2004 Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, 2005 National Tartan Day Organisation, Washington DC, 2005 Hellenic Medical Society and Eteria Ellinon Epistimon, London, 2005 Royal College of Nursing history of medicine forum, London, 2006 Royal College of Surgeons, Hunterian Museum public lecture series, London, 2006 British Society for History of Pharmacy, London 2006School of Pharmacy, University of London, 2006University of Brighton and Sussex Medical School History of Medicine Society, 2007School of Pharmacy, University of London, lecture for MSc module on Modern Aspects of Drug Discovery, 2006Archives et Bibliothèques de Belgique/Archief-en-bibliotheekwezen in België, Int