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

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 ...

In November 2005, the Australian Government requested the repatriation of three human skulls - believed to be of Australian Aboriginal origin - from Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection. They had been ...

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Credit: Letter to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart. on the responsibility of monomaniacs for the crime of murder / by James Stark. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has ...

Credit: A dissertation on elective attractions / by Torbern Bergmann ; translated from the Latin by the translator of Spallanzani's dissertations. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material ...

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In the early 20th century, a new form of treatment for tuburculosis emerged in Europe and North America. Sanatoriums were a hybrid between a hospital and a resort, built to maximise patients’ exposure ...

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 ...