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  • Judging the Wellcome Image Awards

    09/02/2011

    In exactly two weeks, the Wellcome Image Awards will be announced at Wellcome Collection. Louise Crane looks back to October, when the judging of the awards took place. Last year, a team of picture editors, scientists, writers and broadcasters met… Continue reading

  • The Wellcome Library – A Picture Researcher’s Point of View

    17/12/2010

    One of our Historical Picture Researchers, Rachael Johnson, is leaving the Wellcome Library for pastures new. Before she departs, she’s offered us an insight into a typical day in Wellcome Images… Wellcome Images researchers currently supply around 3,000 digital images… Continue reading

  • Congratulations to Spike Walker

    10/09/2010

    Last night, Spike Walker, one of Wellcome Images most prolific contributors – and over the years a multiple Wellcome Image Award winner – was awarded the Royal Photographic Society‘s Combined Royal Colleges Medal. For more on Spike’s work, see this… Continue reading

  • Congratulations to The Cell!

    29/07/2010

    BBC Scotland’s The Cell, which features stills from Wellcome Images, won “Best scripted programme” at the ABSW Science Writers’ Awards on Friday. Last week we wrote about the recent multitude of appearances our images have made on television this year.… Continue reading

  • Wellcome Images on screen

    23/07/2010

    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

  • Portraits of Sir Paul Nurse

    15/07/2010

    As announced today, Nobel laureate Sir Paul Nurse will be the first Director and Chief Executive of the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation (UKCMRI), which has been founded by the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, the Wellcome… Continue reading

  • Wellcome Images at the Picture Buyers’ Fair, 2010

    19/05/2010

    On 19 and 20 May 2010, Wellcome Images will be exhibiting at stand no. 42 at the British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies (BAPLA) Picture Buyers’ Fair 2010. This year, the Fair is held at a new venue: the… Continue reading

  • Wellcome Library Workshops

    08/02/2010

    This week’s free Wellcome Library workshops are: Wellcome Images Do you need a picture? Find what you need from the Wellcome Images catalogue: search 160 000 pictures online, covering the history of medicine and the history of human culture from… Continue reading

  • A Christmas Quiz

    17/12/2009

    The Christmas issue of New Scientist features a quiz created by Wellcome Library staff. We were asked to chose items from our Image Library and also to create false descriptions for them. Can you tell the real descriptions from the… Continue reading

  • 10th Wellcome Image Awards

    15/10/2009

    Dr Alice M Roberts, best known for her television appearances on BBC’s Don’t Die Young and The Incredible Human Journey, presented the winners of the 2009 Wellcome Image Awards with their trophies last night at Wellcome Collection. This year sees… Continue reading