A lunchtime talk by Doug Stimson and John Underwood.
The main focus of the
talk will be how the Science Museum’s Library and Archive
collections might be of use to
the family historian. It will be illustrated with examples of “normal” individuals researched from the Museum's collections - Charlotte Wilsdon (a nurse who
worked alongside Florence Nightingale in the Crimea) and William Dakin (a coffee
roaster from St. Pauls in London from the 1850’s).
Since relocating to
Wroughton the Science Museum are keen to attract new audiences to their collections and
the family history angle is one such way to do this.
Although family history is the
main focus of the talk there will also be a look at the library and archives in general
as well as some of the other “treasures” of our collection.
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