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People and the medieval pharmacy

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Library Insights talk in the Viewing Room, Thomas SG Farnetti. Source: Wellcome Collection. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

What you’ll do

Join us as we reimagine the daily life of an apothecary. In this talk we’ll explore the types of customers, apprentices and artisans who visited the medieval pharmacy, and why.

Dates

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Need to know

Location

We’ll be in the Forum. To get there, take the lift or stairs up to level 1 and then follow the signs through the ‘Being Human’ gallery.

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Just turn up to this event. It's likely to have room for everyone.

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About your speaker

Colour photograph of Dr Elma Brenner.

Elma Brenner

Dr Elma Brenner is a Research Development Specialist who works with the medieval European collections at Wellcome Collection.