2012-11-09 15:21
Marek Kohn is the author of such titles as Turned out Nice: How the British Isles will Change as the World Heats Up (2010), A Reason for Everything: Natural Selection and the English Im… Read More
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2012-11-09 13:53
A new academic seminar series organised by a group of historians of medicine based at London universities and hosted by the Wellcome Library will start to meet in 2012-13.The series will be… Read More
2012-11-07 13:55
Monday 19 November 2012, The British Library Conference Centre, 10.00 – 16.00Hosted by the ESRC-funded NOVELLA (Narratives of Varied Everyday Lives and Linked Approaches) project in co… Read More
2012-11-06 10:57
Join us for this Thursday's free Insight talk, exploring the documentation of Native American peoples in the 19th and early 20th centuries.The talk will explore this subject using material c… Read More
2012-10-31 10:14
Dr Shane McCorristine is a Marie Curie Fellow (COFUND, Irish Research Council) at NUI Maynooth and University of Cambridge. McCorristine is an interdisciplinary historian who is currently wr… Read More
2012-10-29 16:08
The Wellcome Library's exhibition of photographs of China taken by John Thomson between 1869 and 1872 is currently on show at The Hunt Museum in Limerick, Ireland.The Hunt Museum is named af… Read More
2012-10-24 12:46
The new spiral staircase, part of our development plans announced today. Copyright Wilkinson Eyre.When Wellcome Collection opened in 2007, we anticipated attracting around 100,000 visits eac… Read More
2012-10-24 09:18
The Wellcome Library was honoured to receive a visit yesterday from staff of the Kuwait Digital Repository at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research: Ms. Shatha D. Al-Own (Projec… Read More
2012-10-23 09:00
Two closely-related archives on population control have recently been catalogued and are now available to researchers at the Wellcome Library. Population Concern (SA/POP) and The All-Party P… Read More
2012-10-19 16:12
The preservation of hard documentary evidence about the past is what we archivists strive towards constantly. But just for once, allow this particular archivist to indulge in a flight… Read More
2012-10-17 13:29
Carlos Paton Blacker or ‘Pip’ as he was more commonly known by his closer contacts, was a psychiatrist and eugenicist who played a crucial role in family planning in Britain duri… Read More
2012-10-12 10:48
Roy Porter (1946-2002) is justifiably recognised as the most influential historian of medicine of his generation. However, despite being a prodigious author, a frequent broadcaster on B… Read More
2012-10-10 12:45
Being an archivist is sometimes a strange profession, spanning a range of worlds. Your training can include instruction in Tudor handwriting or medieval Latin, but will also cover nuts and b… Read More
2012-10-10 12:38
MS.8826A recent manuscript acquisition highlights the importance of dance to health provision for women in the 1930s. Not as health-promoting exercise along the lines of the Women's League o… Read More
2012-10-09 18:21
Wellcome Library no. 70iWilhelm Conrad Röntgen (left) discovered X-rays through a combination of accident and experiment in December 1895, in his laboratory at the University of Wü… Read More
2012-10-09 08:54
Europ.In is a lovely web application that gives a Pinterest-like view of some of the Wellcome Library's more visually interesting material.The Wellcome Library contributes material from our… Read More
2012-10-02 12:48
Two new Insight talks, designed to highlight the breadth of the Library's collections, are coming up in October: 'Ancient Medicine: Secrets of the Greeks' on the 4th at 3… Read More
2012-09-27 16:42
The BBC reports the death earlier today of the actor Herbert Lom, who played the police chief in the Pink Panther films. His many other roles included parts in The Ladykillers (1955) and The… Read More
2012-09-26 15:17
Sick City Talks are a new series of podcasts on the history, literature, art and science of medicine in London, devised by Wellcome Trust Public Engagement Fellow, Dr Richard Barnett.Th… Read More
2012-09-21 16:15
This week, Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4 featured a discussion between Dr Lesley Hall, Senior Archivist, Wellcome Library and author Lisa Appignanesi. Inspired by the new film Hysteria t… Read More
2012-09-14 19:18
The memento mori pictures in the Wellcome Library range from complex and learned allegories to popular works which encourage their owners to laugh in the face of fate.A comparable collection… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
On Wednesday, 21st November, visitors to the Wellcome Library website will notice that we’ve made some changes. We’ve given the whole site an overhaul, with new branding, a str… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Update your bookmarks and blog rolls, and redirect your RSS reader - our blog is moving! After four years and more than 900 blog posts on Blogger, our blog and its entire archive will be… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Thanks to everyone who has been in touch over the past fortnight with your thoughts on our redevelopment plans. We can now confirm the dates and times of our drop-in sessions being held here… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Dame Honor Fell at the Strangeways LaboratoryThere has recently been increasing interest in recovering the history of women in science, perhaps as the result of the desire… Read More
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