SUMMARY (SA) The Royal Pharmaceutical Society became the Royal College of Pharmacy and a charity on 15 April 2026. Yet the title ‘College of Pharmacy’ was suggested in early discussions about what to call the new body to represent chemists and druggists; when founded in 1841 it was called ‘the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain’; whilst considered appropriate to its aspirations, the title ‘College’ was rejected as too presumptuous. Five years later the Society considered taking on the role of college or establishing one separately; a College of Pharmacy Practice was eventually founded in 1981, but this was wound up in 2013 following establishment of a Faculty of Pharmacy Practice. This talk traces the shifting relationship between the names and objectives of Britain’s national pharmacy body. BIO (SA) Stuart Anderson is a past president of BSHP and editor of the Society’s journal, Pharmaceutical Historian. and a former chair of the Society for the Social History of Medicine. He is an emeritus professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and has written extensively on the history of pharmacy. He was the editor of 'Making Medicines: A Brief History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals' (2005), and recent books include 'Pharmacy and Professionalization in the British Empire' (2021) and 'Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation and Empires: Making Medicines Official in Britain’s Imperial World' (2024). He was president of the International Academy for the History of Pharmacy between 2009 and 2017, and is a Fellow of both the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and the Royal Historical Society. SUMMARY (CW) From a teaching collection to safeguarding the heritage of the profession, this talk explores how the role of the Museum evolved alongside the Pharmaceutical Society. BIO (CW) Catherine Walker is Vice President of the BSHP and the Museum Manager at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.