The John Rylands Library celebrated its 125th anniversary with an Open Night featuring the Humanitarian Archive. Guests viewed collections on display from the library alongside selected items from the Humanitarian Archive.

The paper explores how Emergency Health Kits (EHKs), introduced between 1978 and 1990, transformed international humanitarian medical aid.

This paper, by Janelle Winters and Williams HK Schilling, looks at delays in approving the COPCOV trial—a large, international study led by the University of Oxford. It explains how bureaucracy and regulations slowed the trial and suggests ways to improve research during health emergencies.

HCRI archivist Courtney Stickland will be in Dublin in January as part of a panel with Caitriona Dowd, Molly Gilmour, and DHM alum Maria Cullen on civilian targeting in conflict and crisis.

Encyclopedia entry to the Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society by PI Professor Taithe on Humanitarian Medicine and Organizations.

Post-Doctoral Research Associate Maria Cullen is at Belfast as part of this panel which explores how political dynamics and conflict drive food crises and shape humanitarian responses, emphasising the need for politically informed approaches to improve understanding, response effectiveness, and long-term recovery.

Revisiting British Humanitarianism: Three Life Stories The online Rylands Lunchtime Seminar Series highlights the breadth and quality of our unique Special Collections and showcases world-class…

This workshop proposes to invite the advisory committee of the Developing Humanitarian Medicine (DHM) project and Humanitarian Archive for a series of papers and roundtable…

Check back here soon for a list of sources on the history of humanitarian medicine.

30 of HCRI’s LEAP students were introduced to the work of the Special Collections department, and to the background for the Humanitarian Archive.