TUBERCULOSIS: Wellcome Library

Two new sources for the study of tuberculosis are now available in the Library's Archives and Manuscripts department.The Library has recently acquired the records of the British Thoracic Society: they have now been catalogued and made available for research. The Society was founded in 1982 as an amalgamation of the British Thoracic Association and the Thoracic Society but it can trace its family tree back to 1910. The Society’s archive thus contains records of predecessor organisations dating back to the 1920s including the Society of Superintendents of Tuberculosis Institutions; The Tuberculosis Association and later known as the British Tuberculosis Association, the British Thoracic and Tuberculosis Association and the British Thoracic Association; the Joint Tuberculosis Council and the Thoracic Society . Over the years, and in its various incarnations, the Society has brought together respiratory physicians, surgeons, anaesthetists, radiologists, pathologists and others working in the field. Its records provide a wide-ranging professional perspective on tuberculosis and lung disease which complements the story told in other collections already held by the Library, such as the records of the lay body the National Association for the Prevention of Consumption and other forms of Tuberculosis.
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