From today, the Trust Archives will mainly focus on posting on our Bluesky and Instagram accounts (details in bio). Come and find us there for the start of Explore Your Archives focus week from 21-30 November!

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Today's the day! Come and find us at #HistDay24 and find out how we can support your research! (You can also try your hand at bandage winding and pill rolling. !)

This week the archives staff and volunteers got up close and personal with the North Wing at St Bartholomew's from new angles and heights, & saw the conservation team at work! Big thanks to the @BartsHeritage team for their 'Anatomy of the North Wing' tour

Only a week until #HistDay24! Come and find our stand on 5 November and find out more about our collections and their incredible potential for research. We love to enthuse, so come and have a chat!

At last! We've been cataloguing some fun bits of Barts-developed technology for use on the wards . #HistMed #History #Archives

RT @santon74: Happy Pharmacy Technican Day. Spending some time reminiscing how things have moved on from pharmacy staff rolling out tablets….

It's #PharmacyTechnicianDay, and what better way to mark it than an archive visit for the St Bartholomew's Hospital pharmacy techs? They found out about the history of dispensing and pharmacy at Bart's, & used items from our handling collection to try their hand at making pills!

Why have we had this 1820 'poor relief' list for the parish of St Bartholomew the Great out in the #archives? And why do we have it in our collections at all? Find out in the latest issue of our newsletter, available at

👀New on the blog👀 - the story of a little-known children's hospital

#OTD in 1666, the governors of St Bartholomew's Hospital met to discuss 'the Terrible and Unmercifull Fire' which had started the day before. The hospital archives were protected by the governors' order to remove the hospital records to Hornsey for safekeeping! #GreatFireOfLondon

RT @Will_Palin: Our brilliant 'Anatomy of the North Wing' scaffolding tours give the public a unique opportunity to get close to the beauti….

RT @DohertyTA: #HistNursing @WikiWomenInRed . @RCNHistory have added Pamela Hibbs to #Wikipedia . An icon at @NHSHomerton & @NHSBartsHealt….

RT @LondonOnGround: St Bartholomew's Hospital's statue of Henry VIII is the only public sculpture of the Tudor king in London. Or is it. ?….

We were at Homerton Hospital today to discuss a potential new acquisition. Although it's now part of a separate Trust, when it opened it had strong links to St Bartholomew's - reflected in the logo on this plaque of the old City & Hackney Health Authority, & the Bart's shield

RT @NHSEngland: ‘The most wonderful memories I have are of the patients I met.’. Gulzar was the first person from South Asia to ever work f….

📣New(ish!) on the blog!📣. What is conservation, why do we do it - and how can you support it?.

Thank you to the brilliant group from @RF_Tweets who visited us this afternoon to find out about careers in archives and heritage. We talked about interpretation and then had a go at mixing paints like William Hogarth, thanks to our colleagues at @BartsHeritage !

With thanks as ever to @Barts_Charity for supporting us to share the historic collections of our hospitals in new ways🙏.

Fascinating stuff going on in the #archives today! Celeste from @LinConservation is producing 3D scans of objects from our collections selected by Community Curators through our Bringing the Collections Closer project. Coming to digital displays at the Royal London Hospital soon!