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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.

  • The Birth of the Birth Control Clinic

    17/03/2011

    As part of IHR@90, a celebration of the ninetieth anniversary of the foundation of the Institute of Historical Research, a conference was held last Friday at Senate House on ‘The Birth of the Birth Control Clinic’ (jointly organised with the… Continue reading

  • “A Digital Future for the History of Medicine?”

    16/03/2011

    Next Wednesday (23rd March), Dr Simon Chaplin, Head of the Wellcome Library, will be giving a talk at the Centre for the Humanities and Health (CHH), King’s College London, titled: “A Digital Future for the History of Medicine?” The talk… Continue reading

  • Wellcome Library Insight – Women, health and healing

    07/03/2011

      This week’s free Wellcome Library Insight session – on Thursday 10th March – 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… Continue reading

  • Last chance to see: ‘High Society’

    25/02/2011

    Wellcome Collection’s current temporary exhibition, High Society, closes this Sunday (27th February), meaning there’s not much time left to sample its stimulating wares. High Society draws upon a range of intoxicating material from the Wellcome Library – a small sample… Continue reading

  • Wellcome Image Awards announced

    24/02/2011

    The Wellcome Image Awards 2011 were announced last night. The Awards recognise the most technically excellent, visually striking and informative biomedical images recently acquired by Wellcome Images. The winning images have been produced by a range of imaging techniques and… Continue reading

  • Woman’s Hour

    23/02/2011

    Yesterday’s edition of Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4, featured an interview with Dr Lesley Hall talking about her new book – recently highlighted here – The Life and Times of Stella Browne: Feminist and Free Spirit. The interview discusses… Continue reading

  • Wellcome Library Insight – Addicts and Apothecaries

    21/02/2011

    To accompany Wellcome Collection’s High Society exhibition, this week’s free Wellcome Library Insight session – on Thursday 24th February – highlights some of the dealers and dopers, addicts and apothecaries, who reside in our collections. Discover too, how our understanding… Continue reading

  • Judging the Wellcome Image Awards

    09/02/2011

    In exactly two weeks, the Wellcome Image Awards will be announced at Wellcome Collection. Louise Crane looks back to October, when the judging of the awards took place. Last year, a team of picture editors, scientists, writers and broadcasters met… Continue reading

  • A Wellcome Chinese New Year in Glasgow

    08/02/2011

    Inaugurating the Chinese Year of the Rabbit, the exhibition China through the lens of John Thomson 1868-1872 opened at the Burrell Collection in Glasgow on 4 February 2011. It was opened by Professor Nick Pearce (Director of the Institute for… Continue reading

  • Rabies on The ONE Show

    27/01/2011

    Fears of Rabies in the UK were resurrected on BBC1 last night, in a feature on The ONE Show, as part of their ‘Panic’ week. In a segment shot in the Wellcome Library, Dr Neil Pemberton, Centre for the History… Continue reading