Issue 12/September 2019
INSIDE: The Witches of East Midlands • Fully Fashioned: archival remnants of the textile trade • What’s new?
DISCOVER The University of Nottingham’s Manuscripts and Special Collections
Spotlight
Welcome
Welcome Welcome to the latest edition of Discover, the University of Nottingham Manuscripts and Special Collections’ newsletter. Our involvement in the University Libraries Integrated Scholarly Information (ISI) project continues. Members of the University are now able to order Special Collections books direct from the catalogue rather than having to email a request. By the time you read this our new Digital Gallery will be live, and we will build on this in the coming months. Do have a look at some of the wonderful images from our collections; it can be accessed direct from the library catalogue or through our web pages at: nottingham. ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/ exhibitions/digitalgallery.aspx
The witches of East Midlands
We are also in the final stages of procurement of our new digital preservation system. We reached our 3,000th accession in June. Although collecting archives began in the 1930s we only introduced our present numbering system for accessions in 1960 and so, in the last 59 years, 3,000 separate groups of records have been acquired by Manuscripts and Special Collections. Accession 3000 is a collection of ephemera from the University of Nottingham Ningbo Campus Students’ Union in China and UNNC Young Volunteers Association, and reflects the University’s global status and the global nature of our collections. As always, we are extremely grateful to the owners of archives for donating or depositing them with us so that we can make them available to researchers. Our new exhibition at the Weston Gallery highlights the importance of the acquisition of business archives, preserving the history of many trades and industries which have long since disappeared. The lace and hosiery industries were central to Nottingham and the surrounding area and this is reflected in both our archival holdings and the new exhibition. Fully Fashioned: Archival remnants of the textile trade runs until 1 December with the usual programme of supporting events. To find out more about any aspect of our work please contact me. Meanwhile, I hope that you enjoy reading this edition of Discover.
Mark Dorrington
Keeper of Manuscripts and Special Collections
COVER: The making-up room at Chilprufe Ltd.
BCH 5/1/1/26
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Compendium Maleficarum: collected in three books … showing iniquitous and execrable operations of witches against the human race, and the divine remedies by which they may be frustrated, 1929. Special Collection BF1559.G8, barcode SC265596. Originally published
in 1608, the Compendium Malefecarum (Book of Witches) was regarded as the authoritative text on witches.
Extract of an engraving from Compendium Malefecarum (Book of Witches)
Spotlight
Early Modern European society is notorious for its waves of enthusiastic witch-hunts. The causes have been debated by historians, but they were almost always a combination of religious, social and economic upheaval and uncertainty. Powers commonly ascribed to witches include turning food inedible, flying, and making people and livestock ill and crops fail. Witches were not always seen as evil: ‘cunning men and women’ were often consulted for their alleged healing abilities, folk medicine cures, and occasional divination. Nor were witches always stereotypically women, but older women could be more vulnerable to accusations because they were more likely to be dependent on the community and less likely to have influential defenders. The Witchcraft Act of 1735 brought an end to the legal acceptance that magic and witchcraft were genuine. It became a crime to claim magical or supernatural powers, with a maximum penalty of a year’s imprisonment. Instead, witches, cunning folk and wise men were viewed as fraudsters conning the desperate and the naïve. This complete reversal of attitude – the insistence that no real witches had ever existed – came just nine years after Janet Horne became the last person to be executed for witchcraft in the UK.
Above, churchwarden presentment for soothsaying, Mattersey, Retford deanery; 1 October 1622. Records of the Archdeaconry of Nottingham, AN/PB 339/3/92. Below: The Bakewell Witches, Bygone Derbyshire, edited by William Andrews, 1892. East Midlands Collection, Der 1.D14 AND, barcode
6002101961
he repeated the incantation. He was whirled through the air and transported to the cellar, where the two witches
The town of Bakewell in Derbyshire is more famous for its puddings than as a hotbed of sorcery, but The Bakewell Witches (1892) gives two accounts of what happened to the unfortunate Mrs Stafford, a milliner, and her sister when they were accused of witchcraft. In 1608, an itinerant Scottish man, whose name is not recorded, was discovered half-dressed in a London cellar by a night watchman. Facing felony charges, he came up with a bizarre defence to explain both his presence and his unclothed state: that he had been spirited there by witches. He had been lodging with Mrs Stafford in Bakewell, and late one night had witnessed her and her sister conduct a ritual and chant “Over thick, over thin / Now, devil, to the cellar in Lunnun” and immediately disappear. Full of curiosity, bravery or foolhardiness,
offered him some wine that immediately rendered him unconscious. Unfortunately for the women, the authorities in London and Derbyshire gave this story far more credence than it deserved. The discovery of his clothes in Bakewell condemned them to the gallows. The far more plausible story is that Mrs Stafford evicted her lodger after he fell behind with his rent, and kept some of his possessions in lieu of payment. With no money and nothing but the clothes on his back to sell, he had travelled to London. A charitable interpretation is that he simply
sought shelter in an unoccupied building overnight; the more cynical is that the night watchman interrupted a burglary, and the Scot’s defence both saved his own neck and got revenge on his former landlady. Witchcraft, soothsaying and other superstitious practices came under the remit of the ecclesiastical courts. Despite the impression many people have of widespread persecution and killing of witches, this wasn’t the case with the vast majority of accusations. Where no harm had been caused – that is, people sought or provided healing or fortune-telling – the church would require the offender to publicly repent and cease the behaviour, which is likely what happened to Anne Cook when she came before the court. Her presentment bill (an account of what she was charged with) is just one of the thousands held among our records of the Archdeaconry Court. “Minister and one churchwarden present the following: Anne Cook of our parish for taking in hand to speak of the death of divers [people] dwelling therein, and to show beforehand about what time they shall die [‘as of shee could tell destinies and soothsayinges’, crossed out].” There is no information as to whether her prophecies were accurate.
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Exhibition news
ARCHIVAL REMNANTS OF THE TEXTILE TRADE
EXHIBITION EVENTS Booking information: Box Office: 0115 846 7777 Online: lakesidearts.org.uk LUNCHTIME TALKS A series of talks to accompany the exhibition in the Djanogly Theatre. Talks are £3 (concessions free). All talks start at 1pm and last for approximately an hour. Advance booking is recommended. Luddites and the Framework Knitters: collective bargaining by riot Tuesday 29 October Julian Atkinson and Roger Tanner, authors of Luddism in the East Midlands: Riots and Negotiations (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Labour History Society: 2018), tell the true story of Luddism in Nottinghamshire. They share the results of their research into the knitters’ union led by Gravenor Henson, the character of East Midlands Luddism, and the intersections between the two. Celebrating 235 years of Luxury Knitwear Manufacturing Thursday 21 November John Smedley Ltd, of Lea Mills, Derbyshire, was one of the first companies to install fully fashioned knitting machinery. It produces fine-gauge knitwear using traditional handfinishing techniques alongside cutting-edge technology. Jane Middleton-Smith discusses the firm’s heritage and how it uses its business archive for inspiration, research and engagement.
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The making-up room at Chilprufe Manufacturing Company, 1929, BCH 5/1/1/26. Below: logo of the Amalgamated Society of Lace Makers and Auxiliary Workers, Lm 3/L/18/1/13
Using photographs, marketing materials and business records from the University’s lace and hosiery archive collections, Fully Fashioned explores surviving evidence of the textile trade which was once a major feature of the East Midlands. We reveal the struggle for workers’ rights, from the targeted campaign of machine breaking by the Luddites (in protest at unfair pay and the introduction of ‘cut-ups’ in favour of the superior fully-fashioned stockings), to the development of unions such as the Nottingham-based Amalgamated Society of Operative Lace Makers and Auxiliary Workers. Exhibits explore the growth and eventual decline of companies as they battled to survive changing fashions and competition from cheap imports. The exhibition also reflects upon the ways in which both the legacy of the Luddites and the city’s
lace heritage continue to inspire tourists, artists, and activists. Architecture is one of the more visible remnants of the textile trade; the grand warehouse buildings of the Lace Market stand as a reminder of the lace industry. People are probably less aware that the region was once an important centre for hosiery manufacture, but evidence exists in the grand houses built for successful master hosiers (with many examples on University Park alone), and the distinctive wide windows still to be seen in the former homes of frameworkers. Archival survivals are fragmentary and the business archive collections at the University include ledgers, correspondence and product brochures, but few examples of garments or fabrics. The records of many companies are lost forever, victims of mergers, takeovers and bankruptcies. The business collections are supplemented by the papers of academics, particularly Emeritus
Professor Stanley D Chapman’s research papers (PSC), Professor Charlotte Erickson’s research on Nottingham hosiers (MS 586), and photographs of industrial sites by Professor David M Smith (MS 627). The records of organisations such as the Wholesale Textile Association (WTA), and Nottingham Chamber of Commerce (MS 185), help reveal how the trade was organised, and what support was available for the sector. The exhibition has been curated by staff from Manuscripts and Special Collections at the University of Nottingham and designed by UoN Design. Friday 6 Sep to Sunday 1 Dec Tuesday–Friday, 11am–4pm Saturday and Sunday, 12 noon–4pm. Closed Mondays Free Weston Gallery
DH Lawrence Pavilion, Nottingham Lakeside Arts, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD
Pasolds Ltd adverts. BPS ACC 2803. An employee working the last stocking frame at Frederick Longdon & Co Ltd, Derby, c1970s. BLD 13/4. Reports of the trial of James Towle... East Midlands Special Collection Lei 3.H64 REP
RELATED EVENTS Textile Tales Roadshow Meeting Room 1, Lakeside Pavilion Friday 22 November 11am–4pm Free, just drop in Did you or your family work in the East Midlands’ textile industry between 1980 and 2005? The Roadshow team at Nottingham Trent University would love to hear your stories. Tea and cake will be provided. Sponsored by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, The Worshipfull Company of Framework Knitters, and East Midlands History and Heritage. www.textiletales.co.uk
Poster for Paradise (Nottingham Playhouse, 1991). SJL ACC 2333
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Spotlight
Cuttings Nottingham Guardian, 1930. The old newspapers offer an insight into the changes in society. East Midlands Special Collection
History & Hidden Secrets NOTTINGHAM’S NEWSPAPERS
Digital media and 24-hour news means the importance of the humble newspaper can be overlooked. Nottingham used to have many newspapers, including the Nottingham Argus, Guardian, Journal, Mercury and Review. According to the Bibliography of British Newspapers – Nottinghamshire (Michael Brook and Charles A Toase), the Nottingham Post was the first to make an appearance, in 1710. In Manuscripts and Special Collections we hold issues of all these, as well as other regional newspapers. Bound as volumes, our newspapers span the years 1749 to 1979, though not all years are present for any individual title and some are sadly too fragile to produce in the Reading Room. But those that remain are a fascinating source of social, political, and economic history. Comparing two newspapers taken 100 years apart – the Nottingham Journal (1830-1831 these years are bound together) and the Nottingham Guardian (1930) – gives us an insight into societal changes and in how events were recorded. The weekly Journal – advertised as the Nottingham Journal, And Newark, Mansfield, Gainsburgh [sic.], Retford, Worksop, Grantham, Chesterfield, and Sheffield General Advertiser – cost seven pence for four printed sides. It was printed and published by and for George Stretton, 14 Long Row, Nottingham.
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Above and below: Nottingham Journal, January 1830. East Midlands Special Collection
Your eye is drawn to two prints of post coaches; four horses a pulling the coach under the length of a whip. The 21 April advert talks of the 11-hour journey from Nottingham to York being ‘certain’ by The Royal Union coach, a very fast method of travel for such a distance. The second of these adverts, hailed as ‘MORE IMPORTANT NEWS!!!’ announced the launch of a superior ‘new light elegant’ post coach from Nottingham to Cambridge on 31 May 1830. Messrs Wilmot, Standwell and Co were to run The Tally Ho! This journey seems likely to have taken a similar amount of time as the journey from Nottingham to York. On the return journey to Nottingham, passengers could catch a connecting coach to Liverpool. By contrast, in 1930, the Nottingham Guardian reports on the introduction of double-decker petrol buses to Nottingham, boosting the fleet of singledeckers, and capable of carrying 51 passengers. A new bus station had been built adjoining the covered market in King Edward Street.
There are other notable advancements in transport during this century. One can imagine the long and arduous journey to New York upon the Dapper, which was advertising for passengers in January 1830, and see how ships had advanced both in structure and speed by studying the later naval destroyers. Both HMS Active and HMS Antelope, which features in the Nottingham Guardian, were part of the first class of destroyers built for the Royal Navy after the First World War; both would soon see action in the Second World War.
Recent acquisitions Spotlight
Nottingham Guardian 1930l, January 1830. East Midlands Special Collection
Nottingham Journal, January 1830. East Midlands Special Collection
Georgian newspapers carried many small adverts containing names, ages, and sometimes, crimes, which are extremely useful for social historians and family history researchers. An early 1830 appeal for information on Samuel Woodelton who was ‘six feet high, pale complexion, and has lost his thumb from off his left hand’. asked readers to inform the local constable if they knew of his whereabouts after he absconded from Lowdham. A reward was offered and a promise of ‘reasonable expenses’ paid. The reason for the authorities concern in tracing Woodleton is clear ; with him gone the parish ratepayers are forced to pay for the upkeep of his wife and family. A case that stands out in the 1930 paper is that of Arthur Talbot, 38, who was found guilty of theft. Talbot was a soldier in the First World War and had been sentenced to be shot for desertion, yet escaped with his life. Described as an ‘old offender’ with ‘a shocking Army character’, today we might consider the impact of his wartime experiences on his mental health. A great scuffle had ensued when Talbot was brought to the dock, for he was ‘a powerfully-built labourer’. It took three warders to get him there and it is reported that his clothes were torn and he stood in the dock panting for breath. It was decided that Talbot should be seen by a court missionary (early probation officers). However, upon reading the last words of the article, it seems there was little hope placed upon him reforming. ‘If you do not do what [the court missionary] advises, to use a common phrase, you will ‘get it in the neck’. One thing that hasn’t changed over the years is our relationship with man’s best friend. Lost dog adverts can be seen in the Journal, such as one placed by Mr James Ball in the hope of finding young Ponto. In 1930, a photo captured a talking film apparatus registering a dog’s bark at Crystal Palace. If you would like to consult our newspapers or make enquiries as to the editions we hold, please contact: mss-library@nottingham.ac.uk.
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Recent acquisitions
In June we reached our 3,000th accession. Although collecting archives began in the 1930s, we only started using our current numbering system for accessions in 1960, and so in the last 59 years 3,000 separate groups of records have been sent to Manuscripts and Special Collections – and number 3000 was a significant one. University Archives Accession 3000 is a collection of ephemera from the University of Nottingham Ningbo Campus (UNNC) Students’ Union and UNNC Young Volunteers Association, kindly collected and sent here from Ningbo by our former Advantage Award student volunteer Yahui Zhang, who had worked in Manuscripts and Special Collections during her secondment to the UK campus. Yahui also wrote an extremely useful report for us on student life at UNNC, and arranged for born digital material to be transferred to us. We have previously reported how we want to collect material relating to the current, as well as the past, activities of the University. As archivists we recognise the large part that chance has played in the survival of records from the past which we now value for their research potential; today we can do things differently and actively select and collect resources for the future. For this reason we set up our Tri-Campus Contemporary Collecting Project, which seeks to document life for students and staff across all our campuses and for which Yahui’s work is a significant contribution. It coincided with the deposit of files from the Ningbo Student Union (ACC 2987) and a collection of digital photographs of social events held at Ningbo between 2006 and 2010, sent to us from the Office of Global Engagement (ACC 2996). Back in the UK, as part of the Tri-Campus Project, we’ve received a number of items in our collection box at the Students’ Union (ACC 2989). Other University archives have also been sent to us. These include the Pharmacy notebooks of Dr Frank S Cooper, who was a Leverhulme scholar and a member of staff with the Pharmacy Department, 1940s1979 (ACC 2997), and on the student side we have received a sample of student record cards for the Adult Education Department from 1933 to the 1950s. These are of particular interest as they note when a student went off to World War Two
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Ephemera left in our collection box at the Students’ Union, University Park Campus. UL/F/1; ACC 2989
What’s new?
Ephemera collected by Advantage Award student volunteer Yahui Zhang at UNNC. UU/1; ACC 3000
and Special Collections having helped with the music accompanying the digitisation of the 15thcentury Wollaton Antiphonal, one of only two known surviving English antiphonals decorated with illuminated miniatures as well as intricate borders. The digitised version can be viewed in a kiosk in Wollaton Church and on our website.
and when/if they returned to resume their studies (ACC 3004). On a sadder note we received the programme for the Memorial Service held at the Djanogly Recital Hall, University Park for Philip Weller, a member of the Department of Music who died in December last year (ACC 3008). He was well known to the staff of Manuscripts
Programme for Philip Weller’s Memorial Service. UP; ACC 3008
In view of our extensive holdings of building plans for
Recent acquisitions
The site of Hallward Library and the Queen’s Medical Centre, 1970s. UMP 3/12; ACC 2991 The path between Trent Building, the former Law and Social Sciences building and the old Engineering block (now demolished), 1960s-1970s. UMP 3/12; ACC 2991
the University, the receipt of additional photographs of the University Park Campus is particularly significant. The most recent accession is of aerial photographs from the Estates’ Office, (ACC 2991), taken in the 1960s and 1970s. Many changes have been made over the years and so photographs such as these are a vital record of its development; of particular interest are the photographs taken before and after the building of the Hallward Library in the 1970s.
Literary Papers Manuscripts and Special Collections is nationally designated as the repository for the DH Lawrence Collection and so we were pleased to acquire two typescript memoranda of agreement between Frieda Lawrence and Leon M Lion regarding the performance of DH Lawrence’s play The Daughter in Law; 1934-1936 (La Mc 2/9). It would appear that the play was not performed at that time under this title, the premier being recorded as taking place in 1967 at The Royal Court Theatre, London.
filming of Colin Wilson’s novel Adrift in Soho, directed by Pablo Behrens (ACC 2990). Born in Leicester in 1931, Wilson was grouped with other writers, including John Osborne and Kingsley Amis, as one of the Angry Young Men, a group of working and middle-class playwrights and novelists, disillusioned with traditional British society who became prominent in the 1950s. Adrift in Soho was published in 1961 and the film was released in 2018. Among our collections you can now find the letters submitted for the most recent volume of the Letters Page Journal (ACC 2984). The Journal was founded by Jon McGregor, local author and Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English, in c2013, and explores the literary traditions of letter-writing in a digital age. It covers many subjects but all written in letter-form and although not all of the submissions are published, they are preserved in Manuscripts and Special Collections.
Business Archives
Included in our new exhibition, Fully However, according to the Fashioned: Archival Remnants of the Cambridge Edition of The Works Textile Trade, is a lace sample volume of DH Lawrence: The Plays edited Agreement for the performance of D.H. Lawrence’s play The (MS 1019/3/1) from Wrights & Dobson by Hans-Wilhelm Schwarze and John Daughter in Law, 1936. La Mc 2/9; ACC 2999 Ltd (dyers and printers of Nottingham). Worthen (CUP 1999), the play did The volume was purchased by their appear in 1936 but only after it had Another addition to an existing collection Design Director at a Paris exhibition to been adapted by Walter Greenwood and are the papers and props relating to the use as inspiration as the company the title changed to My Son’s My Son.
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Recent acquisitions
developed a technique for flockprinted lace. The volume contains a combination of machine and handmade lace which have been individually mounted on coloured backings that have been cut to shape, rather than being simply pasted onto the classic blue pages of standard sample books. More recently we have received further material relating to Wrights & Dobson Ltd (MS 1019; ACC 3011).
Special Collections Additions to the Special Collections include a number of books relating to women’s social and cultural presence in Victorian England. William Russell’s 1857 book Extraordinary Women: their girlhood and early life discusses the lives of notable women such as Elizabeth Fry, the prison reformer referred to as the “angel of prisons”, the stage actress Sarah Siddons, famous travellers and adventurers such as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Lady Hester Stanhope, and women of letters such as Madame de Staël-Holstein and Amelia Opie. Books published by Lady Wortley Montagu and manuscript letters by Amelia Opie have featured prominently in the recent exhibition Romantic Facts and Fantasies: Culture and Heritage of the Romantic Age, c1780-1840, held in the Weston Gallery, Lakeside Arts. The author of the 1861 publication A Woman’s Thoughts about Women published anonymously; however, the book confidently explores female professions, handicrafts, management of servants and the social network of female friendships. The book is illustrated with an engraving by John Saddler from artwork by the sculptor FM Miller which shows a rare depiction of women writing (with a quill) and studying a book in a neoclassical décor. Women Who Win, or make things happen (1897) is a series of fifteen biographies published by William M Thayer. The women are the author’s contemporaries and heroines of the public imagination: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lucy Stone Blackwell, Elizabeth Fry, who is also celebrated in the aforementioned book by William Russell, and Florence Nightingale. Manuscripts and Special Collections holds the Florence Nightingale Special Collection which contains books once owned by
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Above, Lace Sample book from the archive of Wrights w& Dobson Ltd (dyers and printers of Nottingham). MS 1019/3/1
First edition of Jane Elizabeth Giraud’s (1810-1868) book of botanical drawings, Flowers of Shakespeare, has been added to the Cambridge Shakespeare Collection. DFSDF the famous founder of modern nursing. The Travel Collection has a new addition in Marianne North’s (1830-1890) twovolume autobiography Recollections of a Happy Life, published in 1892. Marianne North was a naturalist, botanist, and painter of flowers. She travelled extensively, and the books contain vivid travelogues about her field trips in North and South America, the West Indies, Borneo, Ceylon, India, Australia and South Africa. North offered her collection of botanical drawings to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. They have been on permanent public display in the dedicated Marianne North Gallery since 1882.
A first edition of Jane Elizabeth Giraud’s (1810-1868) book of botanical drawings, Flowers of Shakespeare, has also been added to the Cambridge Shakespeare Collection. The author lived at Faversham in Kent and published a number of books containing her hand-coloured lithographed plates of flowers and plants named in Shakespeare’s and Milton’s works. The Flowers of Shakespeare was published in 1845. The volume illustrates twenty-nine quotes with images of plants such as docks, thistles, kecksies, and burs, in fine drawings, using “Elizabethan” typescript font.
The Queen officially opening the Queen’s Medical Centre. Notebook containing photographs of CT scans of the brain.
n o t g n i h t r o W n a i r B The papers of
Professor Brian Worthington’s papers form a significant part of the MRI Collections Project. Radiologist Worthington was heavily involved in the development and use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).
Worthington came to Nottingham after spending his early years in Oldham and studying in London. Born on 9 June 1938, he grew up in modest circumstances and was expected to leave school at 16 and start work. Luckily his school persuaded his parents to let him stay on to study A-levels, after which he won a scholarship to Guy’s Hospital in London and graduated with MBBS in Medicine and a BSc in Physiology. He moved to Nottingham with his wife and two sons in 1970 after working in The London Hospital, starting as Consultant Radiologist at Nottingham General and City Hospitals, and becoming Professor in Diagnostic Radiology at the University of Nottingham in 1981. At that time Nottingham was one of the world’s leading centres for MRI research, and Worthington’s radiological skills were invaluable in investigating the medical possibilities for the applications of MRI. He worked first with Bill Moore’s research group and, after Moore left Nottingham in the early 1980s, he collaborated extensively with Peter Mansfield’s group. Worthington’s collection is interesting because it primarily relates to the practical uses of research into MRI, such
as the clinical applications of MRI images of the human body. This contrasts with Sir Peter Mansfield’s collection, for example, which focuses on the fundamental research and development required to create and capture such images. Manuscripts and Special Collections are lucky to have the papers of both men.
Worthington was very interested in the teaching side of MRI. In the 1970s and 1980s rapid progression in MRI made it clear that the technique would be of great use, but people needed to be taught to read the results. Worthington’s collection includes thousands of 35mm slides of MRI scans, which he used to demonstrate new procedures, and took with him to lectures and conferences around the world. Among his papers Worthington kept presentation boards from conferences, giving an overview of his research. There are also X-ray films and CT scan images which he kept in teaching files for his work at Nottingham. His training taught some of the next generation of clinical radiologists who went on to develop further applications of MRI. The research papers he accumulated also covered other subjects, such as image analysis and mental rotation of medical images, and he was fascinated by how people viewed objects differently. Such perception-related issues could have a big impact on whether a radiologist was able to make a correct diagnosis. Worthington kept notebooks on his
research and experiments. These books are stuffed with additional loose pages, photographs and handwritten notes. One such notebook contains a series of early CT images of the human brain, accompanied by handwritten details of the medical condition displayed.
One of the files in the collection concerns a visit to the University of Nottingham by Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh. As part of the Silver Jubilee Tour on 28 July 1977, the Queen opened the Queen’s Medical Centre. There was a display of MRI material, and Worthington kept his invitation as a memento. Worthington belonged to many societies and was proud to become the President of the British Institute of Radiology for 1988-1989. He kept a file of papers relating to his inaugural Presidential Address on ‘Limitations on a theme’. He was also honoured to receive the Trent Medal for Excellence in the Promotion of Health Care in 1997, commemorating the occasion by keeping an annual report containing references to the award, together with his letters of congratulations. Work on the MRI Collections Project is due to finish by October 2019, when the catalogues of our MRI collections will be available online, and the collections will be accessible in the Reading Room. COMING NEXT ISSUE: A report on the MRI Project’s completion.
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