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Suggested Reading:

A: Books on the history of pharmacy
Anderson, SC (2005). Making Medicines: A Brief History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals, London: Pharmaceutical Press.
Holloway, SWF (1991). Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain 1841 to 1991: A Political and Social History, London: Pharmaceutical Press.
Hudson, B with Boylan, M (2013). The School of Pharmacy, University of London: Medicines, Science and Society, 1842-2012, London: Academic Press.
Matthews, LG (1962). History of Pharmacy in Britain, London and Edinburgh: Livingstone.
Poynter, FNL (1965). Evolution of Pharmacy in Britain, London: Pitman Medical.
Sonnedecker, G (1976). Kremer's and Urdang's History of Pharmacy, Fourth Edition, Madison, Wisconsin: American Institute of the History of Pharmacy.
Trease, GE (1964). Pharmacy in History, London: Bailliere, Tindall and Cox.

B: Articles on the history of pharmacy

Anderson, SC (2013).'Pharmacopoeias of Great Britain', in A History of the Pharmacopoeias of the World, International Society for the History of Pharmacy, Berlin, Germany, 1-8. http://www.histpharm.org/ISHPWG UK.pdf.
Anderson, SC (2012). Expert Committees, Welfare and Education: Transformation of the hospital pharmacist in Great Britain 1920 to 1995, Twentieth Century Studies, 12, 289-310.
Anderson, SC (2008). 'From 'Bespoke' to 'Off-the-Peg': Community Pharmacists and the Retailing of Medicines in Great Britain 1900 to 1970', Pharmacy in History, 50, 2, 43-69.
Anderson, SC (2007). Community Pharmacy and Public Health in Great Britain 1936 to 2006: How a Phoenix Rose from the Ashes, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 61, 844-848. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2652958/pdf/844.pdf.

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