Historian Molly Conisbee reflects on how we’ve paid our respects to the dead over the centuries – from lively gatherings ...

Join an in-conversation between Grace Spence Green and Kyla Harris, as Grace explores her journey from spinal-injury patient ...

Discover how self-published zines have been used to share individual expriences of disability and disabled identity. You can see, touch, listen to and create your own zines in this display, drawn from ...

Wellcome is committed to ensuring that anybody that comes into contact with Wellcome Collection or its work is safe and protected from abuse and maltreatment of any kind. At Wellcome Collection, this ...

Signs of the times: or the overthrow of the papal tyranny in France, the prelude of destruction to popery and despotism, but of peace to mankind. By J. Bicheno (Online) ...

Moving through the world, we are constantly engaging with our environment through our attention and emotions. Increasingly, as more people are living in built-up urban environments, we’re looking to ...

Papers of M H F Wilkins relating to the research and writing of Wilkins' autobiography, The third man of the double helix (Oxford University Press, 2003)K/PP178/6/1-6 Papers of M H F Wilkins: drafts ...

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 ...

In 1950, an American journalist popularised the term ‘brainwashing’, arguing that a new amalgam of technology, medicine and ideology was allowing an onslaught on people’s minds. In this abridged ...

Many artists in the 1980s and 1990s turned their art into activism to raise awareness of the emerging AIDS epidemic. These public health posters from around the world show how they creatively ...

In the 20th century, doctors and nurses became sex symbols and romantic heroes and heroines as medical Mills & Boon novels grew and spread with the newly created NHS. Agnes Arnold-Forster explores the ...