Harriet Wheelock / Tuesday 7 June 2011 Heritage Centre launches online book shop As part of the continuing improvement of the Heritage Centre's online presence and services, we have launched an online book shop. The book shop forms part of the Heritage Centre's web pages and can be accessed here. The online book shop sells publications relating to the history of RCPI as well as history of medicine works written by College Fellows. The main work relating to the history of the College is Widdess' History of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland. John Widdess (1906-1982) was a historian, librarian and biologist, his love of books led him to be appointed to positions at many of the main medical libraries in Dublin, including the Royal College of Physicians. He wrote a number of works on the history of medicine in Ireland, including his work on RCPI. Published in 1963 this volume remains the definitive history of the College from its foundation to the mid-twentieth century. The book shop also sells Dr David Mitchell's short memoire on 25 years of the College's activities, which brings Widdess' narrative up to 1988. There are also a small number of publications relating to the history of medicine in Ireland more generally, including two works by Dr Davis Coakley, a Fellow of the College, and medical historian. These are his biography of Robert Graves (1796-1853) a leading figure in the golden age of Irish medicine, who revolutionised clinical teaching. The volume also includes the text of four of Graves' lectures. Also on sale is Dr Coakley's Irish Masters of Medicine which celebrates the lives of 42 Irish Medical men, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, who have left their mark on international medicine. Finally there are also a small number of Dr Edward Martin's A Dictionary of Bookplates of Irish Medical Doctors with short biographies. In this volume Martin introduces the history of bookplates, before looking in detail at the bookplates of Irish doctors from the sixteenth to the twentieth century and providing informative biographical sketches of his subjects. Details of all the works on sale, including prices and postage, can be found on the Heritage Centre's Online Book Shop.