Events and Visits

This week’s free Wellcome Library Insight session – on Thursday 22nd September – explores the changing role of women in medicine and attitudes to female healers through the centuries, with historical material drawn from the Wellcome Library’s collections. Our Insight… Continue reading

This week’s free Wellcome Library Insight session – on Thursday 8th September – explores how doctors, governments and ordinary citizens in London have struggled against poor hygiene, pollution and dreadful epidemics, developing the themes of the recent Wellcome Collection Dirt… Continue reading

The Library will be hosting the inaugural Fred Sanger lecture on Monday 5th September: ‘Putting Human Genetics on a Solid Basis: Human chromosome research, 1950s-1970s’. The lecture, by Professor Soraya de Chadarevian (UCLA Department of History and Center for Society… Continue reading

Inspired by the intriguing collections of hand-written recipes and remedies in the Wellcome Library, we will be asking if food can cure, rooting through the history of culinary medicines and exploring contemporary scientific and cultural responses to food. The series… Continue reading

This week’s free Wellcome Library Insight session – on Thursday 4th August – ties in with Wellcome Collection’s current Dirt exhibition. The session will show how doctors, governments and ordinary citizens in London have struggled against poor hygiene, pollution and… Continue reading

From the 15th July until 28th August 2011, an exhibition consisting of reproduction posters entitled Spreading the Word: AIDS posters from Around the World, will be on display at the New Walk Museum and Art Gallery in Leicester. The Wellcome… Continue reading

This week’s free Wellcome Library Insight session – on Thursday 23rd June – explores the changing role of women in medicine and attitudes to female healers through the centuries, with historical material drawn from the Wellcome Library’s collections. Our Insight… Continue reading

Last night’s edition of BBC’s The ONE Show included a feature on the history of midwifery. Filmed in the Medicine Man gallery of Wellcome Collection, the sequence featured an interview with Prof Elaine Hobby (Loughborough University), who illustrated her account… Continue reading

How do you get on well with people? How do you respond to violence, pain, bereavement or illness? How do you make sense of others’ behaviour? How do you stop worrying about death and pay attention to life instead? These… Continue reading

MRSA and C Diff may be relative new-comers on the scene, but hospital acquired infections have been around as long as hospitals have. It was Joseph Lister’s groundbreaking work on aseptic surgery which offered the first hope of a solution… Continue reading