Tag: Charles Darwin

An old favourite from the Library collections, The Evolution of Household Articles has been digitised. We’ve used some of its quirky images on the blog before, and now it’s available for everyone to enjoy, in glorious detail, in our player.… Continue reading

A new Insight this week will focus on Victorian faith and science during a period when new discoveries challenged biblical accounts of how the world came to be. Theology Vs Geology will be held on Thursday 23rd February, 6-7pm and… Continue reading

On the 27th December 1831, one of the most famous expeditions of the nineteenth century was launched, as it was on this day, 180 years ago, that the second voyage of HMS Beagle begun. As such, let’s mark this anniversary… Continue reading

Every Christmas from the 1890s until 1914, Henry Wellcome gave a book to the employees of his pharmaceutical business, Burroughs Wellcome and Co. As some of these titles remain in the Library’s collections, we wondered if they would shed some… Continue reading

This Japanese woodcut (left: click on image to enlarge;  by K. Egawa after a painting by Ryūrikyō, 18th century. Wellcome Library no. 730398i) can be considered from several points of view, one of which is its unwitting role as an illustration… Continue reading

Photographs of books and manuscripts in Wellcome Library’s collections and images submitted directly to the photo library, Wellcome Images, are regularly featured on television programmes. Television viewers might have seen Wellcome Library material without even realising it. Two of these… Continue reading

Today is the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. This first edition consisted of 1,250 copies, with the rapid success of the book leading to a second edition of 3,000 copies being brought… Continue reading

This week’s Wellcome Library Insight session, is a joint event held with Wellcome Collection. Darwin’s Inheritance will draw on a range of objects, archives and illustrative materials, in order to contextualise the life and work of Charles Darwin and investigate… Continue reading

Tomorrow’s Wellcome Library Insight session, is a joint event held with Wellcome Collection. Darwin’s Inheritance will draw on a range of objects, archives and illustrative materials, in order to contextualise the life and work of Charles Darwin and investigate the… Continue reading

A new three-part documentary, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, is the latest programme from the BBC’s ongoing Darwin: The Genius of Evolution season. The first part aired last week and is available to view through the BBC iplayer. Keep an eye out… Continue reading