Events and Visits

This week’s free Wellcome Library workshops are: Free for all: history of medicine on the Web Where can you access over 600 000 free full-text journal articles? What online resource includes access to over 3600 digitised medical resources? What is… Continue reading

  Radio 4 is currently re-playing the Charles Paris mystery Cast In Order Of Disappearance. Written by Simon Brett and dramatised by Jeremy Front, tonight’s episode sees Charles, played by the wonderful Bill Nighy, and his friend Elspeth coming to… Continue reading

This week’s free Insight session – on Thursday 11th November – explores how caricatures and cartoons have evolved by looking at drawings, paintings and prints from the Wellcome Library. Our Insight sessions give visitors an opportunity to explore the variety… Continue reading

Last week I attended as invited commentator a fascinating and thought-provoking conference, ‘Scratching the Surface: the history of skin, its diseases, and their treatment’, held at the University of Birmingham Medical School under the auspices of the History of Medicine… Continue reading

The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL has for many years been associated with a noted series of seminars held under the title of “Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine”. At each seminar, significant figures in… Continue reading

Submarines, tanks, swastikas and squiggles are probably not the first things that come to mind when envisaging the material held in the Wellcome Library, but that’s exactly what is contained within the Melanie Klein and Donald Winncott archives that are… Continue reading

This week’s free Wellcome Library Insight session – on Thursday 21st October – focuses on our founder, Henry Wellcome. Who was Wellcome and what drove him to collect over a million objects during his lifetime? We will examine his personal… Continue reading

… the National Gallery’s spacious display of the Wellcome Library’s four paintings by Frederick Cayley Robinson, Acts of mercy. The exhibition is open free of charge at the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square until Sunday 17 October (open every day… Continue reading

The Wellcome Library’s Ross MacFarlane will be giving a talk at the Cuming Museum, London, on Saturday 16th October, titled ‘London’s Lost Collector: Searching for Edward Lovett and His Magical Collection’. Lovett was a folklore collector in the early 20th… Continue reading

This week offers two opportunities to catch one of our most popular ‘Insight’ sessions. Come along to ‘Anatomies of London’ and discover some fascinating – and often lurid – tales of London life, told through the collections of the Wellcome… Continue reading