Lothian Health Services Archive

To bring in the new year, we welcomed Jasmine Hide to the team as LHSA Archives Cataloguer. For the next two years, Jasmine will be working ...

The wide diversity of objects found in the HIV/AIDS collections can present many problems for the conservator, as although the varied items ...

Plastics are synthetic or semi-synthetic materials that can be processed to form a wide range of objects, from thin films and foams to large...

Elsie Inglis (1864-1917) is of great importance to the history of medical care for women in Edinburgh. She founded a seven bed maternity hos...

It is often assumed that modern collections, such as LHSA's HIV/AIDS material, do not need conservation treatment. However, this materia...

The Take Care campaign in Lothian began in the late 1980s in response to the realisation that cases of HIV and AIDS in the area were four ti...