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 ...

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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) ...

Intriguing photographs from sexologists’ archives suggest they could have helped people explore their gender identity and sexuality. Dr Jana Funke reflects on her experiences of discussing sexology ...

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 ...

Credit: Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor : 59th, 1904. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by a private collector for digitisation.

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 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 ...

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 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 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 ...