Credit: First [-Second] report of the Commissioners for inquiring into the state of large towns and populous districts. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by London ...

Conor, A. (Alfred), 1870-1914. First clinical description of tick-borne typhus. Here named Tunisian pimply fever, the disease was later named fièvre boutonneuse ...

Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784. On Fabris's coloured prints for Hamilton's Campi phlegraei see B. Fothergill, Sir William Hamilton envoy extraordinary, New York 1969, pp. 138-143, and John Thackray, ...

Credit: Monographia syphilitica : a journal devoted to the treatment of diseases of the blood and skin by 'Succus alterans'. January, 1887 / edited by Geo. W. McDade. Source: Wellcome Collection.

St. James, Westminster (London, England). Parish. Vestry.

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Sir William Paton's executors. Note: Formerly in the library of Sir William Paton ...

Join Isabelle Gapomo for a tour of the 'Thirst' exhibition, in which she will explore myths and practices around water in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

In the Scottish hamlet of Towie, a rusted metal crown rises from the churchyard. It’s a rare relic from an era of rampant fear of grave robbing, when contraptions called mortsafes protected the newly ...

Ours is the age of contagious anxiety. We feel overwhelmed by the events around us, by injustice, by suffering, by an endless feeling of crisis. So how can we nurture the parts of ourselves that hope, ...