Matthew Johnston

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Tribute: Peter Homan

We were very saddened to hear about the passing of our dear friend and museum colleague Peter Homan. We met Peter while working for the RPS Museum, where he was the longest serving member of the team, having been volunteering two days per week since 1994. Peter helped catalogue the collections, g…

Tribute: Norma Margaret Irvine

We were truly saddened to hear that Norma had passed away. Norma started volunteering at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum in 2012. Her project involved cataloguing a large donation of medicines, from as far back as the 1930s, onto the museum database. She was familiar with many of thes…

Syphilis and the use of mercury

Marriage a-la-Mode No. 3 (The Inspection) belongs to a six part series of paintings by English painter, printmaker and society critic, William Hogarth.…