Discover how self-published zines have been used to share individual expriences of disability and disabled identity. You can see, touch, listen to and create your own zines in this display, drawn from ...

Join Damaris Cooke for a Deaf-led British Sign Language (BSL) tour of the '1880 THAT' exhibition. Damaris worked on the the exhibition as the BSL presenter. Damaris will share her experiences of the ...

Credit: Letter to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart. on the responsibility of monomaniacs for the crime of murder / by James Stark. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material has ...

Great Britain. Court of Exchequer. Exchequer of the Jews.

Credit: A dissertation on elective attractions / by Torbern Bergmann ; translated from the Latin by the translator of Spallanzani's dissertations. Source: Wellcome Collection. Provider: This material ...

include personal details of living individuals be upsetting or distressing be explicit or graphic include objects and images of objects decontextualised in a way that is offensive to the originating ...

In November 2005, the Australian Government requested the repatriation of three human skulls - believed to be of Australian Aboriginal origin - from Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection. They had been ...

include personal details of living individuals be upsetting or distressing be explicit or graphic include objects and images of objects decontextualised in a way that is offensive to the originating ...

include personal details of living individuals be upsetting or distressing be explicit or graphic include objects and images of objects decontextualised in a way that is offensive to the originating ...

In the early 20th century, a new form of treatment for tuburculosis emerged in Europe and North America. Sanatoriums were a hybrid between a hospital and a resort, built to maximise patients’ exposure ...

In 1950, an American journalist popularised the term ‘brainwashing’, arguing that a new amalgam of technology, medicine and ideology was allowing an onslaught on people’s minds. In this abridged ...

The live spectacle of public surgery – and the origin of the operating ‘theatre’ – began with dissections for paying audiences in the 16th century. Lizzie Enfield uncovers the drama, and the ...