Tag: Wellcome Library Insights

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 from… Continue reading

This week’s free Wellcome Library session – on Thursday 1st April – offers both a chance to explore face reading through the collections of the Wellcome Library and also to learn about the life and death masks collected by Sir… Continue reading

How do you spot a liar? What features do aggressive hockey players have in common? Calling all seekers of the shady secrets of face-reading, this is your chance to delve into a centuries old world of knowledge known to its… Continue reading

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

  Last week self-styled ‘Guru of the Gurners’ Danny Rees treated Wellcome Trust staff to a display of rare and unusual library material on the subject of face reading. Items featured included book illustrations from Charles Darwin and phrenologist George… Continue reading

This week there are two free Wellcome Library Insight Sessions. On Thursday afternoon, at ‘Healing Herbs’, discover the history of ‘herbals’ – manuscripts and books that preserve our knowledge of the plant-based remedies used by people in the past (more… Continue reading

Our Insights sessions offer visitors to the Wellcome Library an opportunity to explore the variety of our holdings. Sessions are thematic in style, last around an hour and offer a chance to learn about our collections from a member of… Continue reading