Events and Visits

The second seminar in the series Damaging the Body: Physical Harm and the Self, 1850 – 2010, will take place in the Wellcome Library this Friday evening.  Details:   Friday 20 April, 6pm Dr James Nicholls (Bath Spa University) It All Adds… Continue reading

  At this new Wellcome Library event, attendees will be introduced to items from our collections, interpreted by acknowledged experts. On the 27th April (2.30pm-4pm), our speakers will select a number of works from the Wellcome Library’s collections on the… Continue reading

We are pleased to announce the details of a new academic seminar series, Damaging the Body: Physical Harm and the Self, 1850 – 2010, to be held at the Wellcome Library and organised by the UCL Centre for the History… Continue reading

  This Thursday (8th March) at 3pm our next Wellcome Library Insight focuses on the theme of Doctors and Midwifery. With the current home birth rate in the UK at a mere 2.5 per cent, this session will look at… Continue reading

  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

Here Comes Good Health! is a new exhibit in the Lightbox which showcases some of the health propaganda films and other health promotional activities devised by Bermondsey Borough Council during its hey-day of civic activity between 1920-1939. Originally, the films… Continue reading

This Saturday (25th February) Wellcome Library Research Officer Ross MacFarlane will be speaking at Pills and Potions, Royal Holloway University’s 2012 Science Open Day. The title of Ross’s talk is Henry Wellcome: Invisible Ink to Pills and Potions and in… Continue reading

© The Trustees of the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Only a few more days for readers in Ireland to see the exhibition China through the lens of John Thomson: 1868-1872, which comes to an end at the Chester Beatty Library… Continue reading

A new Insight this week will focus on Victorian faith and science during a period when new discoveries challenged biblical accounts of how the world came to be. Theology Vs Geology will be held on Thursday 23rd February, 6-7pm and… Continue reading

Following recent appearances in central and south London, a ‘merman’ once in the collections of Henry Wellcome, is now on display in Tottenham. The merman is now part of the collections of the Horniman Musem and is currently on loan… Continue reading