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As part of our programme to create a Wellcome Digital Library , we are pleased to announce that we will be digitising the papers of Carlos P...

Photograph of West by Madame Yevonde, 1971  (National Portrait Gallery) Archives and Manuscripts has recently acquired a letter ( MS.8815 ) ...

The archive of the Anatomical Society has recently been catalogued and is now available to researchers at the Wellcome Library. The collec...

We recently had the pleasure of sharing our Special Collections with Year 9 students from Little Ilford School in Newham as part of a scien...

Norway's National Day  (celebrating the adoption of the Norwegian Constitution in 1814) seems like a good occasion to consider the quite...

Exactly ten years ago, on April 26th 2002, one of the Library's archivists sat at a PC and started our archive catalogue programme, went...

"I'm a rambler, I'm a rambler from Manchester way I get all my pleasure the hard moorland way I may be a wage slave on Monday B...

The archive of the Thalidomide Society ( SA/TSY ) and the papers of Professor Richard Smithells ( PP/SML ) have been catalogued and are now ...

Faking it in the world of manuscripts has a long, if not exactly distinguished, history .   Given the determination of ingenious fraudsters ...

In honour of St David's Day, the national day of Wales, today we focus on one of the Library's Welsh holdings. One of the fascinatio...

On 19th April 1943, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann accidentally got some of the chemical he was synthesising onto his fingers, resulting in w...

There can’t be many of our readers in the UK who are still unaware that this year is Charles Dickens’ bicentenary. 2012 sees exhibitions in...

It was the proud boast of London’s Windmill Theatre that “We never closed”: that throughout the Blitz, as bombs rained down on London, the ...