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Wellcome Library Insight – Addicts and Apothecaries
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
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People take pictures of each other
People take pictures of each other, And the moment to last them for ever, Of the time when they mattered to someone. ‘People take pictures of each other’ by Ray Davies Picture the scene: A smiling bride and groom in… Continue reading
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Mellow memories of the drug market
The drug bazaar, Constantinople. Watercolour by J.F. Lewis. Wellcome Library no. 45051i Good to see Brian Sewell writing in a mellow mood (though not for long) in yesterday’s ‘London Evening Standard’. [1] The usually acerbic art critic gave a half-page… Continue reading
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Pills, spills and the peloton
At regular intervals later this afternoon, 189 young men will launch themselves and their bicycle down a ramp on Rotterdam’s Zuidplein, turn north and explode along the Dordstelaan towards the huge sweep of the Erasmus Bridge, legs pumping and lungs… Continue reading
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Addicted artists and the corridors of power: archive material opened January 2010
Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little… Continue reading