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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 Atrocity Exhibition and the Wellcome Library

    28/04/2009

    Obituaries of J.G. Ballard published in the last week have all mentioned the writer’s two years studying medicine at Cambridge, a period in which he dissected the physical body as prelude, he hoped, for a career in psychiatry. As it… Continue reading

  • The Secret Scientists – Ibn al-Haytham

    26/04/2009

    Episode two of The Secret Scientists aired last week on the BBC World Service. Just as in the first episode, the documentary used the resources of the Wellcome Library to illuminate figures from the History of Science. In this second… Continue reading

  • April in Beijing

    22/04/2009

    On the boulevards of Beijing the trees are in blossom as the Wellcome Library’s exhibition is about to open at the World Art Museum. The exhibition is Beijing’s first opportunity to see the vivid photographs of late Qing dynasty China… Continue reading

  • The Secret Scientists

    15/04/2009

    The BBC World Service today aired the first part of a new series, The Secret Scientists. Details: “According to the popular notion of science history, the period between the ninth and 13th centuries was what has come to be called… Continue reading

  • Wellcome Library Insight – Native Americans

    09/04/2009

    Next week’s free Wellcome Library Insight session, explores the cultures of the native populations of North America, as represented in our collections. Book your place at the session online.

  • Exploring Wellcome Collection: A History of the Human Body in Europe

    07/04/2009

    A new short course in the history of medicine has been created by Dr An Vleugels, Birkbeck College, University of London. ‘Exploring Wellcome Collection: A History of the Human Body in Europe’ draws on the rich holdings of Wellcome Collection,… Continue reading

  • William Sargant documentary

    01/04/2009

    BBC Radio 4 today aired a documentary called Revealing the Mind Bender General. Details: James Maw on the controversial psychiatrist Dr William Sargant, who tested drugs on his patients with, some say, catastrophic results. In the 1960s and 1970s he… Continue reading

  • Wellcome Library Insight – Madness

    This week’s free Wellcome Library Insight session, explores the theme of ‘Madness’ and Mental Health.

  • New evening events in the Wellcome Library

    23/03/2009

    In April, the Library will launch a new strand of events, held in the Reading Room, to explore how authors have drawn on the resources of the Wellcome Library to inspire and inform their writing. The Ghosts of Netley, Thursday… Continue reading

  • Lesley Hall on Women’s Hour

    19/03/2009

    Dr Lesley Hall, Senior Archivist at the Wellcome Library, appeared on Radio 4’s Women’s Hour yesterday (Wednesday 18 March), talking about anatomical knowledge of the female reproduction system, including William Hunter’s pioneering Anatomy of the Gravid Uterus (1774). You can… Continue reading