Abstract

For the late Victorians, David Livingstone (1813–1873) was one of the great heroes of their era, and Livingstone Online http://www.livingstoneonline.ucl.ac.uk/ provides unique insights into the medical and scientific work of the missionary doctor and African explorer. Livingstone Online (which went live in May 2006) is based at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL and aims to use the potential of electronic publishing to make available an online edition of the medical and scientific correspondence of David Livingstone. Livingstone was a prolific writer, and his letters and other works and his occasional presence in Britain kept him intermittently in the public eye. The website lists 100 of his medical textshttp://www.livingstoneonline.ucl.ac.uk/view/list.php with images of the original handwritten text along with the transcripts. It also describes the chronology of David Livingstone's life, his medical education, and his major works.