Communicating with hand signs has a long history. Researcher Jude Seal examines the evidence for signing in Medieval Europe ...

Our new exhibition explores humanity’s vital connection with freshwater – an essential source of life and pillar of good health for people and planet.

An account of the weather and diseases of South Carolina / by Lionel Chalmers.Chalmers, Lionel, approximately 1715-1777.

Remedies for the wrongs of women / published by order of the Committee of the Associate Institution, for Improving and Enforcing the Laws for the Protection of Women.

Credit: Anti-cholera inoculation : report to the Government of India / by W.M. Haffkine. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of ...

show credit information for image 'Legacies of eugenics in school' Legacies of eugenics in school. © Gergo Varga (varrgo.com) for Wellcome Collection. When A-level ...

Wellcome Collection is built on collections assembled by Sir Henry Wellcome. In the early 20th century Wellcome founded a private historical medical museum closely linked with his pharmaceutical ...

Ours is the age of contagious anxiety. We feel overwhelmed by the events around us, by injustice, by suffering, by an endless feeling of crisis. So how can we nurture the parts of ourselves that hope, ...

Africanus Horton Road runs through the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. My dad studied medicine here before graduating at the tender age of 21 (he was something of a child prodigy). He then moved to ...

show credit information for image 'Geothermal hot spring landscape in Railroad Valley, Nevada, where a Canadian mining company is drilling a new hole in an effort to find large deposits of lithium.

In the final year of the First World War a deadly pandemic spread rapidly around the world. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918–19 infected up to a third of the world’s population and killed up to 100 ...

show credit information for image 'A covered corpse lying on a bed. Etching by Ch. Chaplin after Louis-Henri Deschamps.' When terrible winter storms lashed the East Coast of America in December 2022, ...