Tag: sexuality

Our popular Insight sessions offer visitors to the Wellcome Library an opportunity to explore the variety of our holdings. These free sessions are thematic in style, last around an hour and offer a chance to learn about our collections. The… Continue reading

This week’s free Wellcome Library Insight session – on Thursday 25th February – explores changing attitudes to sex and gender. Our Insight sessions offer visitors to the Wellcome Library an opportunity to explore the variety of our holdings. Sessions are… Continue reading

This week’s free Wellcome Library Insight session – on Thursday 11th February – explores changing attitudes to sex and gender. Our Insight sessions offer visitors to the Wellcome Library an opportunity to explore the variety of our holdings. Sessions are… Continue reading

This summer marked the 35th anniversary of William Schupbach, Curator, Paintings, Prints and Drawings, starting work with what was then the Wellcome Institute. Since then, William and colleagues have undertaken a mammoth cataloguing task, to allow access to the illustrative… Continue reading

  News of a pair of forthcoming public events, which draw on the expertise and skills of two members of Wellcome Library staff. On Thursday 24th September, Dr Lesley Hall, Senior Archivist, is speaking at ‘Sex: A Victorian Mystery’, a… Continue reading

BBC4 repeated last week the documentary Scouting for Boys, which describes the story behind Robert Baden-Powell’s best-selling book, which kick-started the Boy Scout movement. The documentary places the book in the context of its time, describing the social questions which… Continue reading

This painting from our collections is of Lili Elbe, one of the world’s first transsexuals, and who – if reports are true – is to be portrayed in a new film by Nicole Kidman. Lili was born male in 1882… Continue reading