Wikipedia:GLAM/Wellcome/Events and Workshops/Posters

Info about the event

Join researchers Hannah Elizabeth and Suzanne Taylor to learn about the history of public health posters. The posters use a range of techniques to get people thinking about their health, from funny situations to dire warnings of doom. You’ll have the opportunity to share your thoughts about the posters, and then learn how to edit Wikimedia Commons to share your knowledge about the posters with others.

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Relevant reading

If this session sparked an interest, here are some interesting things to read:

Public health posters

• 100 Years of Public Health Marketing https://publichealthengland.exposure.co/100-years-of-public-health-marketing

Vaccines

• 'Injections-While-You-Dance’: Press Advertisement and Poster Promotion of the Polio Vaccine to British Publics, 1956–1962: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14780038.2019.1586061
• Smallpox and its Eradication: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/39485
• History of Anti-Vaccination Movements: https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/history-anti-vaccination-movements
• Vaccinating Britain: https://www.manchesteropenhive.com/view/9781526126764/9781526126764.xml

Rabies

• British Rabies Posters: http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2012/08/item-of-the-month-august-2012-british-rabies-posters-from-the-1970s/
• Britain's Rabid Obsession: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/files/46246155/Britain_s_Rabid_Obsession_Worboys.pdf

Smoking

• Smoking and the New Health Education in Britain: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1449291/
• Medicine and the public: the 1962 report of the Royal College of Physicians: https://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/10218/1/bhm-81-1-286.pdf
• Smoking and Carcinoma of the Lung: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2038856/
• Video of Richard Doll, the man who stopped smoking: https://alchetron.com/Richard-Doll#-
• Anti-Smoking health campaigns: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-019-0326-6
• Film Smoker of the Future, UK Department of Health, 1985: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/1979to2006/filmpage_smoker.htm

Food hygiene

• A Short History of Food Poisoning in Britain: https://0-academic-oup-com.catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/shm/article/12/2/293/1649538?searchresult=1 (this one needs a Wellcome Library account to access!)
• Legs: Flies, Disease, and the New Public Health: https://www.jstor.org/stable/44451125?seq=1
• Salmonella Infections, Networks of Knowledge, and Public Health in Britain: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=r0iPBQAAQBAJ (available in the Library, Shelfmark: FM.41.AA8-9)
• Food Poisoning, An On-going Saga: http://www.historyandpolicy.org/policy-papers/papers/food-poisoning-an-on-going-saga

AIDS/HIV

• Getting around the rules of sex education: https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/WxZnZyQAAPoF1PS8
• AIDS in the UK. The making of policy: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TrOYDwAAQBAJ (available in the Library but closed stores so needs ordering)
• When AIDS became a chronic disease: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1070775/

Orange juice

• One British Thing: A Bottle of Welfare Orange Juice: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-british-studies/article/one-british-thing-a-bottle-of-welfare-orange-juice-c-19611971/7A3A07A71E9CFEA0214EC22984C486A7/core-reader

Tips on how to edit

Here are some more useful links to help you with your editing:

• You can add pictures for use on Wiki-pages and beyond on Wikimedia Commons. Your Wikipedia account will work on Commons too - as well as all the other Wiki-projects and different language versions of Wikipedia.
• Think about whether you have any conflicts of interest.
• All sorts of helpful guides and online resources can be found on the Wellcome Library Wikimedian in Residence Project Page. Here's a selection:

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  A beginner's guide to adding images of your own to Wikimedia Commons
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  A speedy guide on where to find the different buttons on Wikipedia, and explaining what they do - useful for complete beginners!
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  Very straightforward step-by-step instructions on how to add a piece of information to an existing Wikipedia page - useful for complete beginners!
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  An instruction page explaining what Wikidata with instructions for doing basic edits.

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