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Mezzotint by Jacob Gole (1660?-1737?)   after Annibale Carracci. Wellcome Library no. 24994i It is a common experience to have enough feet b...

The distinguished malariologist Leonard Jan Bruce-Chwatt (1907-1989) summed up the feelings of many of his contemporaries when, in 1986, he ...

The Wellcome Library has acquired a collection of 600 British posters dating from the 1940s to the 1990s advertising the health-maintenance...

Photograph by G.M. Kerr, 1926. Wellcome Library no. 726380i . This photographic print is one of the apparently few and elusive portraits of ...

To mark World AIDS Day (1 December) this year, BHIVA (the British HIV Association) held a World AIDS Day Event in collaboration with the We...

Amidst the much-publicised closing-down and boarding-up of some of the public libraries in the London Borough of Brent , there has been a ch...

Think Jamie Oliver's campaigns are new initiatives? This week's free Wellcome Library Insight session - 'Nourishing the Nation...

Every day I walk to my local station to catch the train to work. Every day I pass a plaque on the station wall commemorating an event which ...

1911 was a bumper year for exhibitions. In London there was the Festival of Empire and Imperial Exhibition at the Crystal Palace. In Turin ...

The Wellcome Library acquired the papers of the World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT) in 2010. The collection has recently been...

Visitors to the Wellcome Library see in the entrance hall four paintings of the Works of Mercy by Frederick Cayley Robinson. They are alleg...

Wellcome Library no. 679722i The photograph above, dated 1931, portrays the cardiologist Edward Franklin Bland. Born in Virginia in 1901, B...