Laboratory Technicians Oral History Project

This collection is uncatalogued. The following is a temporary description which may change when detailed cataloguing takes place in the future.

Papers and audio material relating to and generated by the Laboratory Technicians Oral History Project. This includes material such as audio cassettes, survey questionnaires, interview transcripts, copyright clearance forms, photographs, CVs, and background materials relating to the major institutions that the technicians worked at. Covering dates are generally 1998-2002 but there is some material dating back to the 1940s where interviewees supplied additional background materials with their interview.

1940s-2010s

Uncatalogued: 12 boxes, 5 folders and 108 audio cassettes

First accession (Acc 1825) donated by The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, June 2011. A second accession (Acc 2779) was donated by Tilli Tansey in February 2025.

The Wellcome Trust awarded a grant to Professor Tilli Tansey, of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, to conduct an oral history project involving medical laboratory technicians. This project ran from 1996-2001, and involved nearly a hundred laboratory technicians. These technicians were based in a variety of organisations including research laboratories (such as the National Institute for Medical Research), commercial laboratories (such as the Wellcome Foundation), Oxford University pathology and biochemistry laboratories, and hospital laboratories in Oxford and North London.

Copyright in some of the materials has been transferred to Wellcome Collection : this material can be used under the conditions of a CC BY 4.0 licence. The copyright in other materials is held by a range of rights holders. You are free to use the material in any way that is permitted by copyright exceptions and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights holder.

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