"Unprovided with original learning, uninformed in the habits of thinking,
unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book"
Edward Gibbon
WHITE BLOOD
This history of human milk, written from social and scientific viewpoints, tells the story of how babies have been fed from antiquity to modern times and why it matters. Reviews
"As Lawrence Trevelyan Weaver shows in White Blood: A history of human milk, in the course of the nineteenth century, moralists, politicians and a burgeoning paediatrics profession saw human milk as the solution to a ragbag of ills: not only infant mortality rates, but puny or maldeveloped children, unfit conscripts, depopulation, even moral degradation and domestic instability. Weaver, a paediatrician specializing in nutrition and infant digestion, and a fellow in the history of medicine at the University of Glasgow, tracks how human milk has been valued and devalued across the centuries. His method is to use extended quotations that, as he puts it, enable original sources, mostly English and French, to speak for themselves…." TLS 2021
This history of human milk, written from social and scientific viewpoints, tells the story of how babies have been fed from antiquity to modern times and why it matters. Reviews
"As Lawrence Trevelyan Weaver shows in White Blood: A history of human milk, in the course of the nineteenth century, moralists, politicians and a burgeoning paediatrics profession saw human milk as the solution to a ragbag of ills: not only infant mortality rates, but puny or maldeveloped children, unfit conscripts, depopulation, even moral degradation and domestic instability. Weaver, a paediatrician specializing in nutrition and infant digestion, and a fellow in the history of medicine at the University of Glasgow, tracks how human milk has been valued and devalued across the centuries. His method is to use extended quotations that, as he puts it, enable original sources, mostly English and French, to speak for themselves…." TLS 2021
Woven Words
This collection of poems by Marion, Robin, Camilla, Lawrence and Toby Weaver, put together to mark Camilla's birthday in 2019, includes a variety of personal, funny, thoughtful and unexpected verse, under the heading of Reflections and Memories, Comic, Cryptic and Curious, Epic and Narrative and Family and Christmas.
You can read Woven Words here, and more family poetry here
Woven Words
This collection of poems by Marion, Robin, Camilla, Lawrence and Toby Weaver, put together to mark Camilla's birthday in 2019, includes a variety of personal, funny, thoughtful and unexpected verse, under the heading of Reflections and Memories, Comic, Cryptic and Curious, Epic and Narrative and Family and Christmas.
You can read Woven Words here, and more family poetry here
Painter of Pedigree - Thomas Weaver of Shrewsbury
Based on a unique collection of letters and papers of my great-great-great-great uncle, an animal artist during the Agricultural Revolution, this biography is Illustrated with more than sixty of his paintings and prints. It reveals the art, artistry and artifice that went into portraying and promoting new breeds of farm and sporting animals, such as prize bulls and thoroughbred mares, in late Georgian and early Victorian England.
"Far from being a sentimental or eccentric sideshow, farm animal portraiture in the early 19th century was part of an economic revolution, and Thomas Weaver was in many ways its George Stubbs. This admirable biography illuminates the art, life and times of an unjustly neglected artist."
Robin Blake, author of George Stubbs and the Wide Creation
"All the animals painted by Weaver, and humans too for that matter, have marvellous wit and character, illustrated by the most expressive glance, stance and posture."
Mary Ann Wingfield, Dictionary of Sporting Artists 1650-1990
"Possibly the greatest artist of the age of the English Agricultural Revolution."
Demelza Spargo, author of This Land is Our land – Aspects of Agriculture in English Art
Painter of Pedigree - Thomas Weaver of Shrewsbury
Based on a unique collection of letters and papers of my great-great-great-great uncle, an animal artist during the Agricultural Revolution, this biography is Illustrated with more than sixty of his paintings and prints. It reveals the art, artistry and artifice that went into portraying and promoting new breeds of farm and sporting animals, such as prize bulls and thoroughbred mares, in late Georgian and early Victorian England.
"Far from being a sentimental or eccentric sideshow, farm animal portraiture in the early 19th century was part of an economic revolution, and Thomas Weaver was in many ways its George Stubbs. This admirable biography illuminates the art, life and times of an unjustly neglected artist."
Robin Blake, author of George Stubbs and the Wide Creation
"All the animals painted by Weaver, and humans too for that matter, have marvellous wit and character, illustrated by the most expressive glance, stance and posture."
Mary Ann Wingfield, Dictionary of Sporting Artists 1650-1990
"Possibly the greatest artist of the age of the English Agricultural Revolution."
Demelza Spargo, author of This Land is Our land – Aspects of Agriculture in English Art
Child Health in Scotland - A History of Glasgow's Children's Hospital
Published to mark the centenary of the Royal Hospital for Sick Children at Yorkhill in 2014, this history, based on hospital archives and the testimonies of former patients, parents, and staff, chronicles its fraught foundation before the First World War and transformation into an international multidisciplinary centre of paediatrics and child health a hundred years later.
"Iain Hutchison, Malcolm Nicolson and Lawrence Weaver successfully place the rise of a distinctive, specialist institution within the historical context of pediatric specialization. In doing so they craft a study that provides a very welcome piece of the story of how pediatricians and hospital administrators navigated the challenges of caring for the health of children against the backdrop of the shifting sands of public health trends, professional battles, and the all-important arrival of the welfare state." The Bulletin of the History of Medicine 2017
Child Health in Scotland - A History of Glasgow's Children's Hospital
Published to mark the centenary of the Royal Hospital for Sick Children at Yorkhill in 2014, this history, based on hospital archives and the testimonies of former patients, parents, and staff, chronicles its fraught foundation before the First World War and transformation into an international multidisciplinary centre of paediatrics and child health a hundred years later.
"Iain Hutchison, Malcolm Nicolson and Lawrence Weaver successfully place the rise of a distinctive, specialist institution within the historical context of pediatric specialization. In doing so they craft a study that provides a very welcome piece of the story of how pediatricians and hospital administrators navigated the challenges of caring for the health of children against the backdrop of the shifting sands of public health trends, professional battles, and the all-important arrival of the welfare state." The Bulletin of the History of Medicine 2017
Feeding and Nutrition of Infants and Young Children
Written at the invitation of the World Health Organisation, these guidelines, published in English and Russian, were developed to address the poor nutrition and feeding practices prevalent in many countries of the WHO European Region, including those of the former Soviet Union. They have been adopted in over fifteen countries.
Feeding and Nutrition of Infants and Young Children
Written at the invitation of the World Health Organisation, these guidelines, published in English and Russian, were developed to address the poor nutrition and feeding practices prevalent in many countries of the WHO European Region, including those of the former Soviet Union. They have been adopted in over fifteen countries.
Lawrence Weaver 1876-1930 - an Annotated Bibliography
My grandfather (Lawrence Walter William Weaver) was a prolific author, of more than thirty-five books about architecture and its interface with the worlds of commerce and industry. As architectural editor of Country Life before the First World War he also wrote numerous articles about the works of leading architects of his day, such as Edwin Lutyens and Robert Lorimer. This annotated bibliography includes a biography and lists all his publications. Many of his works are still in print and can be found on Amazon
"This delightfully produced and elegant volume is a useful and comprehensive collection of bibliographical information concerning the oeuvre of Sir Lawrence Weaver, Architectural Editor of Country Life from 1910–16, prolific author on architectural and allied subjects, expert on agriculture, and polymath." RSA Journal 1989
"The charm of this little book is in part due to the fact that the publishers have produced a small version of one of Weaver's own books. The tan and brown cover, with its pasted label, resembles the bindings of the Small Country House series, and the text is crisply printed on Antique Laid paper. The fragile glassine jacket is a final brilliant touch." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1990
