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Alta2 Invisible In the Canal Hearing Aid, Oticon Limited, United Kingdom, 2018

Audiology

2018

Alta2 Pro Invisible In the Canal Hearing Aid, Oticon Limited, United Kingdom, 2018

Audiology

2018

Batman mask for child undergoing radiotherapy

Radiomedicine

2018

Flint hand tool, side-scraper, made in the Stone Age.

Hand and Machine Tools

8500-2000 BCE

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Star Portrait of Helen Sharman - The First Briton in Space

Kyle Dawney

2018

Delivery device for the Micra™ Transcatheter Pacing System

Therapeutics

2018

Flint hand tool, scraper from the Stone Age, thoug

Hand and Machine Tools

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, scraper from the Stone Age, thoug

Hand and Machine Tools

8500-2000 BCE

Excavated bronze age skull showing 4 healed trephinings, from Jericho, 2200-2000BC

Bronze Age skull from Jericho, Palestine

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

2200-2000 BCE

Gold Heart Pin, heart-shaped engraved with the word ‘Yes’, awarded by NHS Blood and Transplant to families who support their loved one's decision to be an organ donor, 2018

Gold Heart Pin issued by NHS Blood and Transplant

Surgery

2018

1 pair of ‘Flux Detachable’ period pants

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

2018

Periodic table mug

Experimental Chemistry

2018

Small Stone Age, flake-type, flint hand tool, thou

Hand and Machine Tools

8500-2000 BCE

Mudskipper Spray [2]

James Capper

2018

Gastric Band

Public Health & Hygiene

2018

Gold Heart Pins issued by NHS Blood and Transplant

Surgery

2018

Periodic table t-shirt

Experimental Chemistry

2018

Box for Gold Heart Pin awarded by NHS Blood and Transplant to families who support their loved one's decision to be an organ donor, 2018

Box for Gold Heart Pins issued by NHS Blood and Transplant

Surgery

2018

Gold Heart Pin, heart-shaped engraved with the word ‘Yes’, awarded by NHS Blood and Transplant to families who support their loved one's decision to be an organ donor, 2018

Gold Heart Pins issued by NHS Blood and Transplant

Surgery

2018

Box for Gold Heart Pin, awarded by NHS Blood and Transplant to families who support their loved one's decision to be an organ donor, 2018

Box for Gold Heart Pins issued by NHS Blood and Transplant

Surgery

2018

Micra™ Transcatheter Pacing System, directly implanted in a person's heart to regular its' beat, developed and manufactured by Medtronic Limited, 2018

Micra™ Transcatheter Pacing System

Therapeutics

2018

Fiab brand disposable medium temperature cautery pen for minor surgical procedures, model number F7288, battery operated, CE marked, manufactured by FIAB SpA, Europe, 2018

Fiab Brand disposable cautery

Surgery

2018

cautery

Surgery

2018

3D glasses

Cinematography

c. 2018

Mudskipper Spray [3]

James Capper

2018

Mudskipper Spray [4]

James Capper

2018

copy of a gold cup.

Classical & Medieval Medicine

3000-2000 BCE

Small Stone Age, flake-type, flint hand tool, thou

Hand and Machine Tools

8500-2000 BCE

Small Stone Age, flake-type, flint hand tool, thou

Hand and Machine Tools

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, flake type, Stone Age.

Hand and Machine Tools

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, core-type, Stone Age.

Hand and Machine Tools

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, core-type, Stone Age.

Hand and Machine Tools

8500-2000 BCE

One Mooncup, the reusable menstrual cup

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

2018

Flint hand tool, core-type, Stone Age.

Hand and Machine Tools

8500-2000 BCE

Small Stone Age, flake-type, flint hand tool, thou

Hand and Machine Tools

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, core-type, Stone Age.

Hand and Machine Tools

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, scraper from the Stone Age, thoug

Hand and Machine Tools

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, flake type, Stone Age.

Hand and Machine Tools

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, core-type, Stone Age.

Hand and Machine Tools

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, side-scraper, made in the Stone Age.

Hand and Machine Tools

8500-2000 BCE

Mudskipper Spray [1]

James Capper

2018

Oral history interview with Peter Trewin, conducted and recorded by Dick Fearn at Sheffield Park, East Sussex on 1 June 2018. Duration: 59 min. 24 sec. Overview of railway career; initial thoughts in privatisation; Policy Unit; influencing and steering privatisation; EC Directive 91/440; formation of Railtrack; meeting with John MacGregor (Secretary of State for Transport); Bob Reid 2’s tenure; Select Committee Report; appointment of Bob Horton; British Railways Board (BRB) and Railtrack Board relationship; role at BRB Residuary; Railfreight Distribution (RFD); formation of Strategic Rail Authority (SRA); responsibility for Channel Tunnel contract; role of Board Secretary

Peter Trewin interviewed by Dick Fearn

Oral Histories

2018-06-01

Oral history interview with Sir Michael Holden, conducted and recorded by Frank Paterson at the Union Jack Club, London, on 27 November 2018. Duration: 2 hr. 43 min. 10 sec. British Rail (BR) Traffic Student 1974; marketing Southern Region; Assistant Station Manager; staff relations; Station Manager Twickenham; engineering works experience; Clapham Junction; Assistant Station Manager King's Cross; Motorail; Class 43 High Speed Train (HST) coolant problems 1984; Area Customer Services Manager Slough; Area Manager Watford; driver only operation (DOO) Northampton; South Western Operations Manager; preparation for sectorisation; DOO safety issues; vertical integration; central control of marketing; considerations about move to Railtrack; signalling strike 1994; Zone Director East Anglia; Railtrack Investment Panel; zone team; relationships with train operating companies (TOCs); penalty regimes; minimum changes on privatisation; operational train performance improved; McKinseys consultancy; Zone Director Southern; Hatfield accident; Ladbroke Grove accident; collapse of Railtrack; renewal shortfalls; Railtrack in Administration; Managing Director South Eastern; early retirement; consultancy; Directly Operated Railways (DOR) East Coast; reflections; Williams Review

Sir Michael Holden interviewed by Frank Paterson

Oral Histories

2018-11-27

Oral history interview with Ivor Warburton, conducted and recorded by Frank Paterson at the interviewee's home in Croydon on 29 August 2018. Duration: 3 hr. 4 min. 5 sec. British Rail: London Midland Management Trainee; Assistant Area Manager Oldbury; Crewe Orphanage; Area Manager Luton; University of Warwick business school; Arnold Kentridge; management development; Overseas Tourist Manager; David Rayner; Regional Passenger Manager York; business sector management; Policy Unit; sectorisation; Passenger Marketing Services Director; APTIS (Accountancy and Passenger Ticket Issuing System) and Portable Operated Ticket Issuing System (PORTIS) implementation 1984; Assistant General Manager Birmingham; budget overspend; Cyril Bleasdale; employee relations 1987; Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF); National Union of Rail Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT); British Railways Board (BRB) difficulties; Director Operations; General Manager London Midland 1990; Organising for Quality (OfQ); Nick Mitchell; Leadership 500; meeting with John MacGregor; Railtrack flotation; separation of track from trains; InterCity 250; management buyout (MBO); Office of Passenger Rail Franchising (OPRAF); Virgin takeover; Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC) role; relationships

Ivor Warburton interviewed by Frank Paterson

Oral Histories

2018-08-29

Oral history interview with Richard Goldson, conducted and recorded by Frank Paterson (session 1) at the interviewer's home in York on 9 April 2018. Duration: 2 hr. 14 min. 55 sec. British Rail: Eastern Region Traffic Management Trainee Leeds Division 1970; Assistant Area Manager Knottingley; Personal Assistant to David Bowick; Station Manager Brighton; reforming parcels staff work at Brighton; training at The Grove; quality of training, British Rail Headquarters Marylebone marketing department 1981-1982; open station concept objectives and implementation; freight; aggregates; Foster Yeoman project; Regional Freight Manager Swindon; Railfreight International Business Manager; train ferry; Freight Business Headquarters at Euston House, Railfreight Finance and Resources Manager; new Anglia Region; future involvement in Organising for Quality (OfQ) project; OfQ project team; trade unions relationship; sub-sectors; Signalling & Telecoms (S&T) function; sector management structure; project completion party; privatisation secrecy; comments and relationship with John Edmonds; relations between the Board and Department of Transport (DoT); impact on personal life

Richard Goldson interviewed by Frank Paterson (session 1 of 2)

Oral Histories

2018-04-09

Oral history interview with Robert Goundry, conducted and recorded by Christopher Mew on 4 April 2018 (session 1) at the interviewee's home in Warwickshire. Duration: 52 mins. 25 sec. Career until privatisation; setting up Provincial sector; process of creating train operating company (TOC); personal views on privatisation; difficulties of process; management buyout (MBO) process

Robert Goundry interviewed by Christopher Mew (session 1 of 2)

Oral Histories

2018-04-04

Oral history interview with Steve Gollop, conducted and recorded by Dick Fearn at the interviewee's office at Paddington station on 30 April 2018. Duration: 51 min. 14 sec. Traction trainee/secondman 1984; train driver 1988; Traction Inspector Didcot 1990; Driver Leader Network SouthEast (NSE) Thames and Chiltern Division; formation of British Rail businesses; staff culture; Thames Trains; driver reactions to new rolling stock; move to Connex South Eastern; changes in staff terms and conditions; positive changes in safety culture; impact of Ladbroke Grove accident; British Transport Police (BTP) investigation; train driver recruitment; benefits of greater investment

Steve Gollop interviewed by Dick Fearn

Oral Histories

2018-04-30

Oral history interview with Andrew Nock, conducted and recorded by Michael Lee at the interviewee's home in Bedfordshire on 24 April 2018. Duration: 1 hr. 13 min. 28 sec. Career overview; awareness of scope for freight privatisation 1980s; cash generation; Privatisation Studies group; action immediate after election 1992; freight privatisation team; working with Department for Transport (DfT); Trainload Freight (TLF) split geographically; contracts for engineering trains; freight management buy-out teams; Wisconsin Central; Ed Burkhardt; views in retrospect

Andrew Nock interviewed by Michael Lee

Oral Histories

2018-04-24

Oral history interview with Jim Cornell, conducted and recorded by Frank Paterson (session 1) at Network Rail Headquarters, 1 Eversholt Street, London on 15 October 2018. Duration: 2 hr. 13 min. 51 sec. British Rail (BR) Civil Engineer 5 year Student Apprentice; Chartered Engineer 1964; Divisional Engineer; bank slips; Great Northern electrification; man management; National Union of Railwayman (NUR) relationships; track speed restrictions; impact of Tyne & Wear Metro work; Scotland problems; Pitlochry derailment; Deputy General Manager; Regional Councils and Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive (SPTE); Manning agreement disputes; General Manager 1987; Motherwell derailment; National Infrastructure Cost Review; preparation for privatisation; preparation of British Rail Infrastructure Services (BRIS) for sale; personal workload; golden handcuffs protection; management buyouts (MBOs); contracts with Railtrack difficult; retirement from BR December 1996; speedy sales undervalued units; poor relations with Railtrack; split maintenance from renewals; invitation to join Railtrack Board for year; Network Rail Board 7 years; chaired safety committee; speed of change; Organising for Quality (OfQ); interference from Department of Transport (DoT); trade unions ineffective; Jimmy Knapp

Jim Cornell interviewed by Frank Paterson (session 1 of 2)

Oral Histories

2018-10-15