Author: Ross Macfarlane

This week’s free Wellcome Library Insight session, explores the theme of ‘Madness’ and Mental Health.

April’s edition of the BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are? magazine includes a feature on the best websites for researching medical ancestors in the UK. Rather pleasingly, the Wellcome Library’s website is chosen as the ‘Best Overall’ site. Our… Continue reading

The 24th March is Ada Lovelace Day, an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. Whereas many bloggers will use this opportunity to acknowledge unsung heroines, we’ve decided to write about one of the most… Continue reading

Dr Lesley Hall, Senior Archivist at the Wellcome Library, appeared on Radio 4’s Women’s Hour yesterday (Wednesday 18 March), talking about anatomical knowledge of the female reproduction system, including William Hunter’s pioneering Anatomy of the Gravid Uterus (1774). You can… Continue reading

Our Insights sessions offer visitors to the Wellcome Library an opportunity to explore the variety of our holdings. Sessions are thematic in style, last around an hour and offer a chance to learn about our collections from a member of… Continue reading

A new three-part documentary, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, is the latest programme from the BBC’s ongoing Darwin: The Genius of Evolution season. The first part aired last week and is available to view through the BBC iplayer. Keep an eye out… Continue reading

Today has seen the launch of ‘Brought to Life: Exploring the History of Medicine’, a new online resource from the Science Museum. The website showcases more than 2,500 objects, the majority of which were originally collected by or on behalf… Continue reading

The first issue of new history magazine HerStoria, includes a feature on Dr Lesley Hall, Senior Archivist at the Wellcome Library, the title of which we’ve quoted above. The article rightly hails Lesley’s work as both an archivist and historian:… Continue reading

He’s the man you cannot escape this year, and although we’ve already drawn attention to the images we hold of him and also of the launch of the ‘Tree of Life’ website, we could not go through the 12th February… Continue reading

We recently brought you news on ‘The Patterson Challenge’ – a proposed 20 mile walk across London, which would follow in the footsteps of James Patterson, a Victorian tourist, who had recorded his perambulations in a diary now in the… Continue reading