Events and Visits

A new academic seminar series organised by a group of historians of medicine based at London universities and hosted by the Wellcome Library will start to meet in 2012-13. The series will be focused on pre-modern medicine, which we take… Continue reading

The Wellcome Library’s exhibition of photographs of China taken by John Thomson between 1869 and 1872 is currently on show at The Hunt Museum in Limerick, Ireland. The Hunt Museum is named after John and Gertrude Hunt who presented their… Continue reading

Two new Insight talks, designed to highlight the breadth of the Library’s collections, are coming up in October: ‘Ancient Medicine: Secrets of the Greeks’ on the 4th at 3pm and ‘Lovesick’ on the 18th at 6pm. Learn about unusual ancient cures for a ‘wandering… Continue reading

This week, Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4 featured a discussion between Dr Lesley Hall, Senior Archivist, Wellcome Library and author Lisa Appignanesi. Inspired by the new film Hysteria their discussion traced the historical roots of the term and also… Continue reading

This Saturday, September 8th, graphic designer, photographer and blogger extraordinaire Joanna Ebenstein opens her legendary “Congress for Curious Peoples” in London. Joanna, who runs New York’s acclaimed Morbid Anatomy Library, cordially invites you to join her and a host of… Continue reading

What did it mean to be ill in the past?  How was illness understood and how were patients treated?  Drawing on the rich holdings both in the Library and Wellcome Collection, this short course looks for answers to these questions.… Continue reading

Experience some of our books through the senses of touch and smell this Thursday 6th September, 3-4pm as Jo Maddocks offers her popular talk as part of the Insights series. You can discover what came before Braille and why old books have different odours. Free tickets are… Continue reading

Join us for this Thursday evening’s free Insight talk: a full-colour forray into the dynamic world of Superheroes with our Ephemera curator, Stephen Lowther. The talk will be richly illustrated with some unusual and rare graphic novels from the Library’s collections… Continue reading

Queen Mary, University of London, will be hosting the 2012 Society for the Social History of Medicine’s Biennial conference on the theme of ‘Emotions, Health and Wellbeing’. The conference, run in association with Queen Mary’s Centre for the History of… Continue reading

  The History and Heritage Adult Learning London network, convened by the Raphael Samuel History Centre, will be holding a week-long celebration of games in history from 7th-15 July 2012, with events planned at leading museums and archives across London.… Continue reading