The British Society for the History of Medicine is an umbrella organisation of History of medicine societies throughout the United Kingdom, with particular representation to the International Society
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Noël Poynter
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Frederick Noël Lawrence Poynter FLA was a British librarian and medical historian who served as director of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine from 1964 to 1973.
British Society for the History of Medicine
…The society holds its congress biennially in centres around the UK, with the eponymous Poynter Lecture, named after librarian and medical historian F. N. L. Poynter, being held on alternate years in London. The chief purpose of the BSHM is "to form an umbrella organisation to ‘promote, organise or sponsor’ history…
Noël Poynter
Pages from Poynter's A Catalogue of Incunabula (1954)
Poynter, Gaskell and Walkins in library reading room
Edwin Clarke and Noel Poynter. Wellcome