Historical Pharmacopeias, currently based at Harvard University and Hamilton College, brings together scholars in the histories of medicines, natural products, and healing practices across time and place. Members of the network include historians of medicine and science, specialists in the history of pharmacy, philologists, data scholars, and researchers working on global knowledge traditions.

We edit and publish lists of medicaments from archives, libraries, and museum collections. Contributors share archival images, transcribe and encode manuscripts, and write feature essays on substances with bodily effects from Europe, the Americas, the Ottoman world, the Americas, and beyond. The project has grown alongside ongoing partnerships emerging from conferences, digital initiatives, and the broader community studying pharmacopeias.

We welcome collaboration with researchers interested in natural products, historical pharmaceutics, vernacular medicine, global therapeutics, and documentary archaeology. Scholars wishing to contribute materials or explore potential partnerships are warmly encouraged to contact us as the HP platform develops.