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A trip to Hollingsville
Currently being broadcast on Resonance FM is Hollingsville, a series in which each week writer Ken Hollings and guests explore “different aspects of our historical relationship with technology, from architecture to bodies and from computers to phantoms”. Last week, the… Continue reading
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What’s new in Paris–July 1539
In an article in the March 2010 issue of Print quarterly, Kate Heard publishes a rare early reference to a French anatomical fugitive sheet. [1] Even more unexpected: it comes from an Englishman. More about that later. But first, what… Continue reading
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Rackstrow’s Museum
Exquisite Bodies, the Wellcome Collection exhibition which closes this Sunday, aims to provide a history of the anatomical model in the nineteenth century. The show begins however, with an introduction to anatomical museums in the eighteenth century. One of the… Continue reading
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Ayurvedic man. Wellcome Library Item of the month, October 2009
It was on 15 September 1986 that the Wellcome Institute received a letter from the London art dealer David Salmon, who ran a shop called David Tremayne Ltd towards the western end of the King’s Road in Chelsea. He had… Continue reading
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The Body in History summer school
A group of young women from a number of local schools recently attended ‘The Body in History’ summer school, run by the Wellcome Library and UCL Museums and Collections. During the week , students experienced a range of activites exploring… Continue reading
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16th century anatomical sheets – images and animations now online
The Library’s rare and important collection of printed anatomical sheets dating from the 16th century are now freely available online via Wellcome Images. These intriguing prints depict the human body through labelled illustrations, often using a three-dimensional ‘pop-up’ device of… Continue reading
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The continued adventures of Wound Man
Late medieval anatomy works often contain a standard set of illustrations, copied and recopied from text to text. Typically, these depict the body front and back; the skeleton and muscles within it each from the same two viewpoints, and so… Continue reading
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Lesley Hall on Women’s Hour
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