Events and Visits

I know, shocking! But for one weekend only, lucky guests at the Wellcome Collection’s Feast to Cure Melancholy on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 November were invited to break the rules and dine in the library’s Reading Room as part… Continue reading

Next Thursday (24th November), Wellcome Library Research Officer Ross MacFarlane will be giving a talk at the Florence Nightingale Museum. Flo-Motion: Nightingale in Wellcome Sound and Vision will explore audio visual material from the Library’s collections which have a connection… Continue reading

This week’s free Wellcome Library Insight explores the figure of Folkore collector Edward Lovett, whose collection lies at the heart of the current Wellcome Collection exhibition Charmed Life. Illustrated by personal correspondence held in our archives, the session will seek… Continue reading

This Saturday (5th November), Wellcome Library Research Officer Ross MacFarlane will join Paolo Viscardi, one of the Horniman Museum’s Natural History Curators, at the Bromley Musuem, Orpington, Kent, on “a voyage of discovery across oceans, through time and into the… Continue reading

Amidst the much-publicised closing-down and boarding-up of some of the public libraries in the London Borough of Brent, there has been a cheering event from Brent Archives and Museum at Willesden Green Library Centre: their exhibition of works by the… Continue reading

Last Tuesday (11th October) the Wellcome Collection Conference Centre was the venue for the symposium ‘Stories of Psychology: Archives, Histories and What They Tell Us‘. The event was held as part of the collaboration between the British Psychological Society (BPS)… Continue reading

Last week saw the opening of Miracles and Charms, two exhibitions at Wellcome Collection – Infinitas Gracias: Mexican miracle paintings and Felicity Powell: Charmed Life – which explore faith, hope and chance. As part of a season of events to… Continue reading

The next in our series of study weeks, Armenian Manuscripts Week, will run from Monday 7 – Friday 11 November. It has been designed to provide an opportunity to study original Armenian manuscripts from the Wellcome Library’s Asian Collections. This… Continue reading

Think Jamie Oliver’s campaigns are new initiatives? This week’s free Wellcome Library Insight session – ‘Nourishing the Nation’ – may make you think again. Drawing on archives and illustrative materials from our collections, the event will explore the work of… Continue reading

Why do some faces set my pulse racing and not others? If this has ever crossed your mind, you are not alone. In the past, many have tried to use science to decode the elusive quality of beauty and many… Continue reading