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update: Business history

8 May 2007

'Burroughs Wellcome & Co.: Knowledge, trust, profit, and the transformation of the British pharmaceutical industry, 1880–1940', Roy Church and E M Tansey's history of the pioneering pharmaceutical firm, was published in March 2007 by Crucible Books.

The book offers a comprehensive account of the business, including the scientific research pioneered and sponsored by Henry Wellcome.

Image: Burroughs Wellcome & Co. head office, 1888

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