Pharmacy Talks on YouTube
By Stuart Anderson
A wide range of talks relating to the history of pharmacy are now readily available for viewing on YouTube. These include most BSHP lectures and presentations given over the last four years. They are available at: https://www.youtube.com/@bshpharm/videos
Publishing an article in Pharmaceutical Historian is often an important step in a research process that began some time before and continued long after. Some may have been presented as a poster, others will have been the subject of a conference paper, whilst many represent a small part of a much bigger project. Later, some go on to form the basis of further talks, presentations, or books; quite a number find their way onto YouTube.
The June 2013 number of Pharmaceutical Historian carried an article by Helen Cooke, Fabio Parmeggiani, and Nicholas L. Wood entitled “Analysis of a seventeenth century English apothecary’s probate inventory”. This presented the contents of a shop owned by the apothecary, Raphe Walley of Nantwich, Cheshire, which was discovered during research for an exhibition on health and disease at the town’s museum. Further research resulted in the article being published in Pharmaceutical Historian, and it has since been the subject of several lectures. These included a Christmas Lecture given by Fabio Parmeggiani at Milan University, and this is now available on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhPGs0ft2dI
Helen Cooke, the Nantwich Museum Curator, originally presented a poster on the inventory at the Society of Apothecaries in 2012. In January 2025, she gave a talk on the subject to the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Historical Group, and this is also available on YouTube at:
Other talks on the RSC Historical Group’s YouTube channel which may be of interest to pharmaceutical historians include ones on insulin, the history of ICI, the story of Intal, and on pharmacy in Britain in the nineteenth century.
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