Discovering pharmacy history
Welcome to the Museum’s guide to researching British pharmacy history
Are you new to research in this area?
Or are you starting a new research topic?
Perhaps you’re tracing an individual pharmacist, or investigating medicines used to treat a disease over a number of centuries.
Whatever your research interest, the aim of this guide is to support you by providing signposts to both the resources available and how to approach them to answer your enquiries.
You can use this guide in two ways:
- following questions to find out where to get started
- exploring different types of sources and evidence to find out more.
Click on the links below to get started!
Research questions
If the information here doesn’t answer your questions, please don’t hesitate to contact the Museum team who will do their best to point you in the right direction, details below:
E-mail: museum@rpsgb.org
T: 020 7572 2210
Click here for the Museum’s general booklist on British pharmacy history and objects.
Complete beginner?
Click here for some suggested ways to get started in British pharmacy history