Our new exhibition explores humanity’s vital connection with freshwater – an essential source of life and pillar of good health for people and planet.
Credit: Recherches historiques et observations médicales sur les eaux thermales et minérales de Néris en Bourbonnais, Département de l'Allier. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has ...
Credit: Poisons in domestic fabrics in relation to trade and art : a paper read before the Society, 21st January, 1880, John Simon ... in the chair : being a sequel to the pamphlet, Our domestic ...
From January 2026 Wellcome Collection will close at 18.00 on Thursdays.Report of the Lynton District Cottage Hospital : 1932-33.
Living in the shadows : eunuchs and gender in Byzantium / Kathryn M. Ringrose.
show credit information for image 'Phallic object, large plaster female figure.' Alfred Charles Kinsey once said that a nymphomaniac is “someone who has more sex than you do”, and Kinsey was a man who ...
show credit information for image 'Legacies of eugenics in school' Legacies of eugenics in school. © Gergo Varga (varrgo.com) for Wellcome Collection. When A-level ...
Some of us may remember hard toilet paper and shudder a little as we recall the shiny, smooth sheets. But there was a time when Brits proved difficult to convince of the benefits of soft toilet tissue ...
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 ...
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 ...
Wellcome Collection is built on collections assembled by Sir Henry Wellcome. In the early 20th century Wellcome founded a private historical medical museum closely linked with his pharmaceutical ...
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