Audio, video and Transcripts

Starting in October of 2006, the College Museums Department will be recording selected lectures and events held at the Hunterian Museum and archiving the recordings here for the public. See below for all recorded lectures to date.

	Exhibition Lecture: 'Curious' Recorded Tuesday 8 June 2010 Lecture by: Susanna Edwards Artist Susanna Edwards discusses her influences and the research behind her current exhibition ‘Curious: the craft of microscopy’ that combines contemporary photography with historical slides and microscopes. Listen to recording
	‘Would you ever have thought such a thing possible?’ Alexander Fleming and the FRS Recorded 12 May 2010 Lecture by: Kevin Brown Today, Alexander Fleming is famous for the discovery of penicillin. But Kevin Brown, curator of the Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum exposes the professional rivalries that threatened the career of one of the greatest medical microbiologists of all time. Listen to recording
	Microscopes: a key role in transplant surgery Recorded 11 May 2010 Lecture by: Professor Sir Peter Morris AC FRS FRCS In the last 40 years microscopy has been crucial to advances in surgery that have transformed our ability to treat disease. Sir Peter Morris draws on his own experience to explore the role of the microscope in transplant surgery. Listen to recording
	Joseph Lister, surgeon and microscopist Recorded 28 April 2010 Lecture by: Professor Harold Ellis CBE FRCS Harold Ellis charts the story of Joseph Lister FRS, who followed in the footsteps of his father, a wine merchant and distinguished amateur microscopist, to develop the skills that led to a new understanding of wound infection and to the introduction of antiseptic surgery. Listen to recording
	Blood under the microscope: William Hewson, an 18th-century anatomist Recorded 20 April 2010 Lecture by: Tania Kausmally Join Tania Kausmally, historian and archaeologist as she lays bare the history of 18th-century anatomist and microscopist William Hewson, the father of modern haematology. Listen to recording
	The scandalous Worsleys: sex and celebrity divorce in the 18th Century Recorded 11 June 2009 Lecture by: Hallie Rubenhold Listen to recording
	Making Sex Electric: Dr James Graham and his ‘Celestial Bed’ Recorded 20 May 2009 Lecture by: Dr Lydia Syson Listen to recording
	Darwin’s London Recorded on 16 May 2009 Lectures: Introduction: Why Darwin Matters - Professor Steve Jones (University College London) Listen to recording What was Darwin doing in London? - Dr John van Wyhe (University of Cambridge) Listen to recording Darwin in London - Homes and Haunts - Dr Joe Cain (University College London) Listen to recording Darwin’s London Friends and Foes - Dr Jim Endersby (University of Sussex) Listen to recording Mapping social evolution: social Darwinism and London - Professor Greta Jones (University of Ulster) Listen to recording
	Romantic surgery, radical politics and revolutionary bodysnatching Lecture by: Druin Burch Recorded on 30 April 2009 Listen to recording »
	The surgeon, the countess, her husband and his lover Lecture by: Wendy Moore Recorded on 19 March 2009
	Medicine with a mission: suffragettes as army surgeons Lecture by: Jennian F Geddes Recorded on 5 March 2009 Listen to recording »