Events and Visits
Find out about the talks, seminars and workshops that we’ve got coming up, and read about recent tours and courses at the Library. And we’ll share our accounts of the most interesting conferences and events we’ve been to.
-
Library Insights
Our popular Insight sessions offer visitors to the Wellcome Library an opportunity to explore the variety of our holdings. These free sessions are thematic in style, last around an hour and offer a chance to learn about our collections.… Continue reading
-
The Boilly exhibition in Lille
For anyone with easy access to Lille – and that includes anyone in London, which is 90 minutes from Lille by direct Eurostar train, at a price – the exhibition of works by the painter Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761-1845) is well… Continue reading
-
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
-
‘What’s cooking? Food and eating at home’ conference
Friday 9 March 2012, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London, 9.30 – 17.00 Friday 9 March 2012, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London, 9.30 – 17.00 In association with the Wellcome Library, the Histories of Home Subject Specialist Network will be holding its 4thannual… Continue reading
-
“The flamboyant Mr Chinnery”
Thomas Colledge with patients in Macao. Aquatint by by William Daniell, 1834, after George Chinnery. Wellcome Library no. 9880i “The flamboyant Mr Chinnery” is the title of an exhibition on view at Asia House, in the West End of… Continue reading
-
Frequent flyers
If it could collect air miles, then some of the material in the Wellcome Library would have a pretty impressive stash of them by now. In 2011, Library material travelled a total of 10,168 miles on its way to and… Continue reading
-
Random Edition on BBC Radio 4
In this week’s episode of BBC Radio 4’s Random Edition, presenter Peter Snow marked the 150th anniversary of the death of Prince Albert. The programme focused on how the Prince Consort’s death was reported in one issue of the London… Continue reading
-
Merman resurfaces in Regent’s Park
After a recent sighting in Bromley, a merman once owned by Henry Wellcome, and now in the collection of the Horniman Museum, is making an appearance north of the Thames at the headquarters of the Royal College of Physicians, beside… Continue reading
-
HIV/AIDS at 30: Spreading the Word
To mark World AIDS Day (1 December) this year, BHIVA (the British HIV Association) held a World AIDS Day Event in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust on the theme HIV/AIDS at 30: Back to the Future. 2011 is the thirtieth… Continue reading
-
History of Medicine Course at the Society of Apothecaries
Details are now available of a 3-day introductory course in the History of Medicine, to be held at the Society of Apothecaries, London, on 1st-3rd February 2012. The programme will cover Ancient, Classical, Eastern and Western medicine and the development… Continue reading