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Anatomy or an ottamy? Dissection in Georgian London
On Thursday 15th March, Dr Simon Chaplin, Head of the Wellcome Library, will deliver the Monckton Copeman Lecture at the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London. Titled “Anatomy or an ottamy? Dissection in Georgian London”, the lecture will draw… Continue reading
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160 years of Great Ormond Street Hospital
Today marks the 160th anniversary of the opening of the Hospital for Sick Children at Great Ormond Street, London. As such, we felt we couldn’t let the anniversary pass unnoticed, particularly as the range of material held by the Wellcome Library on the… Continue reading
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Item of the Month, January 2012: Everard Digby’s De Arte Natandi
As the Olympic Games move ever nearer and as swimming is a sport for which Team GB has high hopes of medal success, we’ve dived into our collections and pulled from their depths one of the most influential works on… Continue reading
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Private Minds, Public Collections
As custodians of major archive collections relating to mental health, including patient records from several private hospitals, the Wellcome Library is particularly interested in the issues raised when encouraging public access to, and engagement with, such potentially sensitive material.… Continue reading
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Perspective Tour: Charmed Life
This Thursday evening (26th January), Library Research Officer Ross MacFarlane will be giving a free tour of Charmed Life one of the two exhibitions making up Wellcome Collections’s current Miracles and Charms. Charmed Life is based upon the collection of folklorist Edward… Continue reading
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The discovery of insulin
Today marks the 90th anniversary of the first time insulin was used on a human patient. A brief summary of this event runs as follows: the insulin was injected into a 14-year old diabetic, Leonard Thompson, at Toronto General Hospital.… Continue reading
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Online Resources: ACLS Humanities E-book
Following the Wellcome Library’s recent successful trial of American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Humanities E-book, we’re delighted to announce that we’re now making this database available to Library readers. Over 3,300 high-quality monographs in the humanities are included… Continue reading
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New Labour’s moral mazes
One August evening in Bolton in 1997 five year-old Dillon Hull was accidentally shot dead by a man seeking to recover a heroin debt from Dillon’s father. Dr Brian Iddon, recently-elected Labour MP for Bolton South East, gave an interview… Continue reading
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Item of the Month, December 2011: Sun Yat-sen and Sir James Cantlie
In March 1912 the provisional president of the newly created Republic of China, Sun Yat-sen, sent this letter to Mrs Mabel Cantlie, wife of the British tropical medicine specialist Dr James Cantlie. In it he surveys the enormous challenge the… Continue reading
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HMS Beagle’s Naturalist
On the 27th December 1831, one of the most famous expeditions of the nineteenth century was launched, as it was on this day, 180 years ago, that the second voyage of HMS Beagle begun. As such, let’s mark this anniversary… Continue reading