Needle, a small London-based group, led the early fight for patient rights. Leona Letts reveals how they championed giving ...

Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros. Anno 1057. Noli me tangere Date: c.1775 Reference: MS.1766 ...

Our new exhibition explores humanity’s vital connection with freshwater – an essential source of life and pillar of good health for people and planet.

[Watt Smith] treats each emotion with the expertise of a wine taster, showing how it is formed from a mixture of many other emotions. Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday Bite-size entries on emotions from the ...

Our collections are an incredible resource for all kinds of research, whether you are an artist or writer looking for inspiration, an academic researcher, or just curious about something in our ...

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Credit: Appendix to report of the committee for scientific inquiries in relation to the cholera-epidemic of 1854 / presented to both Houses of Parliament by Her Majesty's command. Source: Wellcome ...

Credit: A treatise on etherization in childbirth : Illustrated by five hundred and eighty one cases / By Walter Channing. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by the ...

In the five centuries since Europeans were introduced to tobacco, smoking has generated considerable controversy. This gallery tracks shifting views on smoking and health, from life-saving stimulant ...

Africanus Horton Road runs through the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. My dad studied medicine here before graduating at the tender age of 21 (he was something of a child prodigy). He then moved to ...

show credit information for image 'Sex work, stigma and whorephobia' Sex work, stigma and whorephobia. © Jessa Fairbrother for Wellcome Collection. Some years ago ...

show credit information for image 'Geothermal hot spring landscape in Railroad Valley, Nevada, where a Canadian mining company is drilling a new hole in an effort to find large deposits of lithium.