Assessing the preservation and conservation needs of the archival and historical collection of St George's Medical School. (360G-Wellcome-105822_Z_14_Z)

The purpose of this application is, following a visit from the Wellcome Research Resources team, to set up a scoping project using two external advisors to assess the content and condition of the St George's Medical School archival collection. The funding applied for will be used to pay for two advisors, an archivist and a conservator to appraise the collection and write reports and make recommendations of how the collection should be managed and looked after. The diverse collections of material cover the history of the medical school and its connections with St George's Hospital. There is increasing interest in this collection and this project would enable us to identify the component parts of the collection and to establish preservation and conservation requirements. This seeping project will also enable us to gain a better understanding of the collections and develop a strategy for cataloguing and preservation, with the ultimate aim of the archives being available for use by the academic community, researchers and medical historians.